Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
We can forgive a man for making a usuful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is to admire it intensely.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray ('), 1890
Variante: Nous pouvons pardonner à un homme d’avoir fait une chose utile aussi longtemps qu’il ne l’admire pas.
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray), 1890
“La conscience et la lâcheté sont réellement les mêmes choses.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray ('), 1890
“La jeunesse est la seule chose désirable.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Youth is the one thing worth having.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray ('), 1890
“Je pense que la vie est une chose trop importante pour en parler sérieusement.”
Oscar Wilde L'Éventail de Lady Windermere
I think life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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L'Éventail de Lady Windermere ('), 1892
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray ('), 1890
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray ('), 1890
“La seule excuse d’avoir fait une chose inutile est de l’admirer intensément.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray