Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cricket House Books

Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, receives a beautiful painting of himself from his good friend Basil Hallward. In the same moment, a new acquaintance, Lord Henry, introduces Dorian to the ideals of youthfulness and hedonism, of which Gray becomes immediately obsessed. Meanwhile, the painting in Dorian's possession serves as a constant reminder of his passing beauty and youth, driving his obsession.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art`s aim.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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To define is to limit.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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