Oscar Wilde

شاب عصري يبيع روحه للشباب الأبدي والجمال.

صورة دوريان غراي: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Arabic edition

Inês Lemos S.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long aste does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless things that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

‘What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.(…)’

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intelectual expression begins.

(…)The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.(…)’

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

'Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

صورة دوريان غراي: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Arabic edition quotes

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