“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.”

“I put all my talent into my works; I put my genius into my life”

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”

“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, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.”

“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, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.”

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.”