Oscar Wilde quote — “There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the d…”

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray intellect joy memory passions pride

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There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the word of the Soviet Communications Registry Bureau, both …

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