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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by unknown,Oscar Wilde,Oscar Wilde
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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture...(more)
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Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)

"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.  The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid."

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde : Irish writer, & playwright
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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