The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. […] There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. […] No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. […] All art is quite useless.


The son, who had been his father’s secretary, […] and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.


To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.


The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

 

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