Dorian Grayn Muotokuva
1890
Dorian Grayn Muotokuva
1890
Translated by Helmi Krohn
Dorian Grayn Muotokuva, published in 1890 by Oscar Wilde, is a novel that follows the story of a young man, Dorian Gray, who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by the hedonistic Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian descends into a life of excess and moral decay, while his portrait bears the consequences of his actions. The novel explores themes of aestheticism, vanity, and the duality of human nature, making it a significant work in the genre of supernatural fiction and didactic literature.
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.””
— Oscar Wilde
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.””
— Oscar Wilde
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.””
— Oscar Wilde
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.””
— Oscar Wilde
“To define is to limit.””
— Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.””
— Oscar Wilde
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.””
— Oscar Wilde
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.””
— Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.””
— Oscar Wilde
