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I never approve, or disapprove of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (page 72)

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Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (page 54)

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make a modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (page 7)

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