O retrato de Dorian Gray

Olá a todos!
Falou-se neste livro num blog amigo (mau feitio) e não resisti a colocar aqui algumas das frases duma das melhores personagens de sempre. Lord Henry podia ser um qualquer errante neste mundo em que vivemos. Mas não. É uma pessoa que não pensa como os demais mas fundamenta-o. É diferente mas sabe sê-lo mesmo quando não agrada a maioria. É ele próprio quando toda a gente o tenta recrutar para a falsidade do pensamento comum.
- Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes... something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! ...The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- That is one of the great secrets of life — to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
- Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cavemen had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
- My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
- To define is to limit.
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains. A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
In wikipedia



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