Penny Dreadful (TV Series)
What Death Can Join Together (2014)
Reeve Carney: Dorian Gray
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Quotes
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Vanessa Ives : I think Mr Gray, there are tremors around us, like the vibrations of a note of music - hidden music. Some may be more attuned to them than others, what do those people do? Those who have been chosen.
Dorian Gray : They endure uniqueness.
Vanessa Ives : To be alien, to be disenfranchised from those around you, is that not a dreadful curse?
Dorian Gray : To be different, to be powerful, is that not a divine gift?
Vanessa Ives : To be alone?
Dorian Gray : To be seeking.
Vanessa Ives : What?
Dorian Gray : Another.
Vanessa Ives : Like you?
Dorian Gray : Who shares your rarity.
Vanessa Ives : Then you are no longer unique.
Dorian Gray : Nor are you alone.
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Dorian Gray : You have exceptional composure.
Vanessa Ives : Do I?
Dorian Gray : Poise, I mean.
Vanessa Ives : Control.
Dorian Gray : Yes. What if you were to abandon it?
Vanessa Ives : I couldn't.
Dorian Gray : Why?
Vanessa Ives : There are things within a soul that can never be unleashed.
Dorian Gray : What would happen if they were?
Vanessa Ives : They would consume us. We would cease to be, and another would exist in our place, without control, without limits.
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Dorian Gray : To be different. To be powerful. Is that not a divine gift?
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Dorian Gray : Photographs are so ironically impermanent. They capture one moment in time to perfection. A painting can capture eternity.