Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

“Because you have the most marvelous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having.”

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.