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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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it was amazing
bookshelves: audio-books, classics, fantasy, horror
Read 2 times. Last read February 16, 2025 to February 21, 2025.

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Oscar Wilde
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray


Reading Progress

July 5, 2010 – Started Reading (Paperback Edition)
July 5, 2010 – Shelved (Paperback Edition)
September 16, 2010 – Shelved as: classics (Paperback Edition)
September 29, 2010 – Finished Reading (Paperback Edition)
March 29, 2012 – Shelved as: fantasy (Paperback Edition)
August 9, 2013 – Shelved as: favorites (Paperback Edition)
September 20, 2023 – Shelved as: horror (Paperback Edition)
February 16, 2025 – Started Reading
February 16, 2025 – Shelved
February 16, 2025 – Shelved as: audio-books
February 16, 2025 – Shelved as: classics
February 16, 2025 – Shelved as: fantasy
February 16, 2025 – Shelved as: horror
February 21, 2025 – Finished Reading

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