“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
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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.
“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”
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“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”
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“I am happy in my prison of passion”
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“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
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“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
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“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
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“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
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“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
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Variant: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
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“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”
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“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
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