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For God's sake don't talk to me," cried Dorian, stamping his foot on the ground. "What do you want? Money? Here it is. Don't ever talk to me again."

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men."

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

It was Gautier's "Émaux et Camées," Charpentier's Japanese-paper edition, with the Jacquemart etching.

Though your sins be as scarlet; yet I will make them as white as snow'?

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished."

"You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.""I don't believe it is my picture.""Can't you see your ideal in it?" said Dorian, bitterly."My ideal, as you call it…""As you called it.""There was nothing evil in it, nothing shameful. You were to me such an ideal as I shall never meet again. This is the face of a satyr.""It is the face of my soul." "Christ! what a thing I must have worshipped! It has the eyes of a devil."