The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence. Fragment
We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . . We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery. Essays
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. The Picture of Dorian Gray
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. Book II
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