The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

“It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.”

They say that you corrupt every one with whom you become intimate, and that it is quite sufficient for you to enter a house for shame of some kind to follow after.

Dorian Gray was the type of everything that is wonderful and fascinating in life.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so;