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“Of course I could never let you know anything about this. It would have been impossible. You would not have understood it. I hardly understood it myself. I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes— too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them.”

LoveArtObsessionMuseDorian GrayHomoeroticismBasil Hallward
Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will last - such a little time. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.”

NovelOscar WildeClassicsDorian Gray
Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
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“BEATRICE: Do you truly not know who he was? Mr. Dorian Gray, the lover of Mr. Oscar Wilde, who was sent to Reading Gaol for—well, for holding opinions that society does not approve of! For believing in beauty, and art, and love. What guilt and remorse he must feel, for causing the downfall of the greatest playwright of the age! It was Mr. Gray’s dissolute parties, the antics of his hedonistic friends, that exposed Mr. Wilde to scandal and opprobrium. No wonder he has fallen prey to the narcotic. MARY: Or he could just like opium. He didn’t seem particularly remorseful, Bea. JUSTINE: Mr. Gray is not what society deems him to be. He has been greatly misunderstood. He assures me that he had no intention of harming Mr. Wilde. MARY: He would say that. CATHERINE: Can we not discuss the Wilde scandal in the middle of my book? You’re going to get it banned in Boston, and such other puritanical places.”

Oscar WildeDorian GrayMary JekyllCatherine MoreauBeatrice Rappaccini
Book:The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
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“Si Sibyl es capaz de dar un alma a quienes han vivido sin ella, si crea un sentimiento de belleza en personas cuyas vidas han sido sórdidas y miserables, si los libera de su egoísmo y les presta lágrimas por sufrimientos que no son suyos, se merece toda tu adoración, se merece la adoración del mundo entero.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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“Los únicos artistas que he conocido que sean personalmente interesantes son los malos artistas. Los buenos, existen sólo en lo que hacen, y por lo tanto son completamente faltos de interés en lo que son. Un gran poeta, un auténtico gran poeta, es la menos poética de todas las criaturas. Pero los mediocres son fascinantes.”

PoesíaArteOscar WildeDorian GrayPersonalidadThe Portrait Of Dorian GrayCinismoPoetasInterésArte Verdadero
Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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