The picture of Dorian Grey

"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us."

When I read the part about how Dorian Grey fell out of love with Sibyl Vane: how he supposedly sat there tortured and hurt by her poor acting. 

I found it ridiculous and was reminded of me being young and stupid. Young and stupid like him to be able to be affected by circumstances with such intense emotions. I find that maturity brings with it a shade of surrealism and emotional numbness even when things are supposedly intense...

"Women inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."

"What they call their loyalty and their fidelity, I call it either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

"It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place."