Tuesday, January 29, 2008

been focusing a lot on existentialism and nihilism lately...don't know exactly what to think about everything in this world and even a possible other world but i do know one thing: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the best book I have read.

page 200:

"You need not be afraid. Our countrymen never recognize a description."
"They are practical"
"They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy."
"Still, we have done great things."
"Great things have been thrust on us, Gladys."
"We have carried our burden."
"Only as far as the Stock Exchange."
She shook her head "I believe in the race," she cried.
"It represents the survival of the pushing."
"It has development."
"Decay fascinates me more."
"What of Art?" she asked.
"It is a malady."
"Love?"
"An illusion."
"Religion?"
"The fashionable substitute for Belief."
"You are a sceptic."
"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith."
"What are you?"
"To define is to limit."
"Give me a clue."
"Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth"

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