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.
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.
- Every impulse that we suppress broods in the mind and poisons us.
- Turn your head a little more to the left, Dorian.
- The gods have been good to you, Mr. Gray.
- 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.
- What the gods give, they quickly take away.
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Memorable quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film, based on Oscar Wilde's novel), with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.
Actors: George Sanders (Lord Henry Wotton), Hurd Hatfield (Dorian Gray), Lowell Gilmore (Basil Hallward), Angela Lansbury (Sibyl Vane), Donna Reed (Gladys Hallward)
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