“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.
“Even things that are true can be proved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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