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'But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.'

[...] 'There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.'
'Why?'
'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.'

'It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. 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. The thoroughly well informed man,—that is the modern ideal.'

'I turned half-way round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eves met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious instinct of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul my very art itself. I did not want any external influence in my life.'

So gay.

'The sitter is merelv the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown with it the secret of my own soul.'

He's gay.

'Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me. never thinks. I feel quite sure of that.'

Oscar Wilde diciendo que la gente que se esmera en su físico no piensa he was a revolutionary es que me recuerda a miticas influs que mucho skincare pero poco pensamiento crítico (que no todas son así, lo sé)

'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.'

Wilde really wanted to show off all his knowledge about history, jewellery, geography, religion, literature, art and more things