The Seven Deadly Sins
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The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Pride - “A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognised himself for the first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder… The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation”
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Greed - “Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was just because of the strength of his desires that he had thought himself a man to whom more was permissible than to others. “
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
Lust - “Our love was exhausted as soon as our desire was satisfied, and now we stood facing each other in our true relationship, which was of two completely alien and completely selfish individuals who only wanted to get the greatest amount of satisfaction out of each other”
Envy - "But jealous souls will not be answered so. They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself. "
Gluttony - “And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile”
Wrath - "“Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous , doomed, that cost the Acheans countless losses, Hurling down to the house of Death so many sturdy souls, Great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, Feasts for the dogs and birds”