So much more dignified. To be miserable and wrecked and suicidal. Much more tragic, and so much more worthy of our hallowed places in Western culture. We have no choice, Judah. For the sake of the Western canon, we must suffer on.

[And it's incredible. Like that, he is up from endless misery and back into this fragile and enduring humour. And it is effortless. Dorian doesn't have to fight the pain, Judas doesn't make him fight it. Judas lets Dorian show his years, and leaves the door open for the escape from them.]

I feel the same. As what you said, about spending time with me.