There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The Picture of Dorian Gray
“On their way out, and much to my surprise, they all shook my hand – as if that night during which we hadn’t exchanged as much as a single word had somehow brought us closer together. ” Stranger
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The Picture of Dorian Gray
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Julius Caesar
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