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Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know… — Oscar Wilde

Novel · Magazine

Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890
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InfidelityBetrayalDangers of loveLove
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NovelMagazine
Time
1890
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Oscar Wilde
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Current citation
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 1.
Original citation
Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890. ch. 1.

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