The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.

JAJAJAJAJA (ta bien, tiene razón)

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures.

Human life—that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating.