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1  You like your art better than your friends.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  "He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely.
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3  Harry," he said, "Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art.
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4  It was certainly a wonderful work of art, and a wonderful likeness as well.
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5  My dear fellow, mediaeval art is charming, but mediaeval emotions are out of date.
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6  We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
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7  When he saw me, he made me a low bow and assured me that I was a munificent patron of art.
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8  The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also.
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9  I won't tell you that I am dissatisfied with what I have done of him, or that his beauty is such that art cannot express it.
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10  Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.
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11  Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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12  There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life.
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13  Hallward painted away with that marvellous bold touch of his, that had the true refinement and perfect delicacy that in art, at any rate comes only from strength.
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14  As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
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15  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.
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16  But now and then a complex personality took the place and assumed the office of art, was indeed, in its way, a real work of art, life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.
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17  The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
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