Started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde today. Lent and recommended to me by Stacey. One of her favorites she says. I’m only about a dozen pages into it and I’ve found at least two quotes that struck me.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. 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, with the desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Maybe I’m twisted, but this is a brilliant way of looking at things. There are so many people (girls) I wish I could get thinking this way. Yeah, I guess I’m a pervert.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that a caprice lasts a little longer.

This one mostly struck me because of the similarity between it and a line in a Wilco song that says, “She says forever, to light a fuse…” I just enjoy it when more than one person makes the same observation and expresses it in a way that resonates with me.