“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

— Oscar Wilde , book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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