There's only one way to get rid of a temptation and that's to yield to it. Resist it and the soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

— Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders)

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9 seconds sound clip from the The Picture of Dorian Gray movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:07:46.080 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Have you really a bad influence, Lord Henry?

- There's no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral.

- Why?

- Because the aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly.

- That's what we're here for.

- A man should live out his life fully and completely, give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

- Every impulse that we suppress broods in the mind and poisons us.

- There's only one way to get rid of a temptation and that's to yield to it. Resist it and the soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

- There is nothing that can cure the soul but the senses. Just as there is nothing that can cure the senses but the soul.

- Turn your head a little more to the left, Dorian.

- The gods have been good to you, Mr. Gray.

- Why do you say that?

- Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having.

- I don't feel that, Lord Henry.

- No, you don't feel it now, but some day you'll feel it terribly.

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