"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."

Vice, Sin, Memory, Madness, Horror

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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."

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"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

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"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."

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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."

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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

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"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."

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"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."

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"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."

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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

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"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."

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"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."

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"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."

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"You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all."

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