Quotes from bookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
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.
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
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“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”
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“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
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“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes…”
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“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
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“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
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“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
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