I know what pleasure is. It's to adore someone.

Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield)

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

You can hear this line at 00:27:11.927 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

- But surely if one lives for oneself, one pays a terrible price for doing so.

- Yes, we're overcharged for everything nowadays.

- One has to pay in other ways than money.

- What sort of ways, Sir Thomas?

- I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in... Well, in the consciousness of degradation.

- No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

- I know what pleasure is. It's to adore someone.

- In that case I think I can guess what it is you have to tell me that it's so important.

(Laughter at the table)

- But adoring someone is certainly better than being adored. Being adored is a nuisance.

- You will discover that women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

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