Questão | Responda |
All art is quite useless - preface | There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book- preface |
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.- chapter 1, Lord Henry | Young Adonis made out of ivory and rose-leaves a Narcissus- Chapter 1, Henry's description of the painting |
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us- Chapter 1, Lord Henry | You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing- Chapter 1, Basil about Henry |
laburnum fantastic shadows of birds laurel bush white daisies lilac-blooms | I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul- chapter 1, Basil |
pulling the daisy to bits plucking another daisy- chapter 1, henry destroying youth and beauty | When our eyes met, I felt I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me.- chapter 1, Basil about Dorian |
As long as I live the personality of Dorian Gray will dominate me- chapter 1, Basil | He is a suggestion he is all my art is to me now new manner in art |
Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least, good women have not- chapter 1 Henry | Don't spoil him. Don't try and influence him.- chapter 1, Basil |
All influence is immoral | to influence a person is to give him one's soul |
the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it | stop! You bewilder me |
...fresh influences were at work within him. Yet they seemed to him to have come really from himself. | There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth! |
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. | If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! |
It will mock me some day- mock me horribly! | All I want now is to look at life.You may come look at it with me, if you care to. |
I always hear Harry's views through his friends. | Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. |
Sordid sinners, and its splendid sins, as you once phrased it. | When I close my eyes I hear them, and each of them says something different. |
She regarded me merely as a person in a play. She knows nothing of life. | When is she Sibyl Vane? Never |
I am a little jealous of the picture for being a whole month younger than I am | Was the soul a shadow seated in the house of sin? Or was the body really in the soul |
Love is more than money | false theatrical gestures tawdry theatrical dress |
He wants to enslave you. I shudder that the thought of being free | I never approve, or disapprove of anything now. |
They retain their egotism, and add it to many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. | The basis of optimism is sheer terror. |
Harry, you are dreadful! I don't know why I like you so much. You will always like me Dorian | ..acting was the one reality in my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. |
The painted scenes were my world | you freed my soul form prison. You taught me what reality really is. |
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