The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.