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Know you? I wonder do I know you? Before I could answer that, I should have to see your soul.

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends. Yours seem to lose all sense of honour, of goodness, of purity. You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You led them there.

There was that wretched boy in the Guards who committed suicide. You were his great friend. There was Sir Henry Ashton, who had to leave England, with a tarnished name. You and he were inseparable. What about Adrian Singleton, and his dreadful end? What about Lord Kent's only son, and his career? I met his father yesterday in St. James's Street. He seemed broken with shame and sorrow. What about the young Duke of Perth? What sort of life has he got now? What gentleman would associate with him?"

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.

Gian Maria Visconti, who used hounds to chase living men, and whose murdered body was covered with roses by a harlot who had loved him;

sick with that ennui, that terrible , that comes on those to whom life denies nothing;

sick with that ennui, that terrible ,

Society, civilised society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-coloured pearls in the mouths of the dead.

seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.