“ As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. ”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
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| Source | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Topic | growth life |
| Date | 1890 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174-h/174-h.htm |
Context
“We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it. As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women. I will certainly encourage them.”
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