האם Oscar Wilde באמת אמר «The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it»?

האם Oscar Wilde באמת אמר «The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it»?

נמצא מילה במילה. כן. הטקסט מופיע ביצירות המיוחסות לOscar Wilde. המקור והמיקום למטה.

… sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with your rose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afra …
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde, CHAPTER 2 · ¶120 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #174 · מקור

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