There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Topic

Fading love Lost love Love

Speaker

Sibyl Vane

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Medium

Novel Magazine

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7.

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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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William James
Source
The Principles of Psychology
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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Citation

James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 4.

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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth.

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Classical antiquity
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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Song of Solomon 3:1).