Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
( Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania) )
from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
( Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via paintmysilence) )
