The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures,

“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not