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Dorian Gray Quotes
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- 1"Don't Spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad."Basil knows exactly what Henry is capable of and doesn't want Dorian's innocence to be corrupted
- 2"Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil,"Dorian has realized that he doesn't need to adhere to good as he naturally has evil in him anyway.
- 3"All art is quite useless."a
- 4"Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many conjectures."a
- 5"But beauty, real beauty, ends where intelligence begins."a
- 6"It is only shallow people who don't judge by appearance."a
- 7"Life suddenly became fiery coloured to him."a
- 8"Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain."a
- 9"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."a
- 10"He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait was to be hidden away."a
- 11"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed."a
- 12He had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so...a
- 13"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."a
- 14"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view."a
- 15Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.a
- 16"He is gone," murmured Sibyl sadly. "I wish you had seen him." "I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him." She looked at him in horror. He repeated his words. They cut the air like a dagger.a
- 17"Oh, she is better than good - she is beautiful"Common misconception in the book. Beauty doesn't equal goodness.
- 18"One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious armchair"This helps to show Dorian's transitional period as he was a ball of energy in chapter 2.
- 19"Basil would have helped him resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influence that came from his own temperament."Dorian thinking to himself about how Basil's inherent good nature would have helped him stay as pure as he was at the beginning.
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