The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

“Every day. I couldn’t be happy if I didn’t see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.”

Basil is in love with Dorian Gray

I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.

“Dorian Gray is my dearest friend,”

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”

Dorian is so real for that

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Henry finally making sense

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.