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This is dome Black Swan stuff “stabbed the canvas, ripping the thing from top to bottom. There was a cry heard and a crash.”
“They found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master… lying on the floor was a dead man… He was withered wrinkled and loathsome in visage” the servants couldn’t even recognize him!

It’s weird to know the dynamic of the actual words written “sin, sin… dreadful places” but the sins are not described in detail. What is painfully detailed is all of his studies and those might be true passions 🤷‍♀️
174 - Even the Cardinal Virtues cannot atone for cold entrees

163- out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
… and there steals over us a terrible sense of the necessity for the continuance of energy in the same wearisome round of stereotypical habits…
I so badly want this kid to lose his beauty. I expected him to be doing some terrible stuff but he studies Roman Catholics, musical instruments, jewels, and tapestries

I don’t really like that Basil and Lord Henry have both asked Dorian to do something and said “like a good boy” after their request. Is what people call an “ick”?

59- real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins
69- Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love; it it the faithless who know love’s tragedies
70- I don’t want you to meet him
Mr Dorian Gray is in the studio sir
You must introduce me now

I wont read the notes until I read the story.
64- Sir Humpty Dumpty lol
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
61 - Lord Harry “Well I will tell you what it is.”
Basil “Please don’t”
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself