![]() ![]() “There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible…” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. It cannot be questioned…People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver she we call the moon. “And Beauty is a form of Genius- is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid and cruel! One could not escape from them! And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viola or of lute. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that is created in us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for actions is a mode of purification.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. To realize one’s nature perfectly- that is what each of us is here for.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. ‘Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. “All influence is immoral- immoral from the scientific point of view.’ One’s own soul, and the passions of one’s friends- those were the fascinating things in life.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. “And how delightful other people’s emotions were!- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.” Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. “It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. “It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.” Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. They know how useful passion is for publication. “There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry- too much of myself!’ They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.” Basil Hallward The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. “It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.” Lord Henry Wotton The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, pg. “But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. 8Īll art is quite useless.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. “it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. “Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. “No artist is ever morbid.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. “No artist has ethical sympathies.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. Even things that are true can be proved.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. That is all.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. Books are well written, or badly written. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. There are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. ![]() “The artist is the creator of beautiful things, To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg.
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