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The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. - Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Quotes)

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Source:(ed. Ward, Lock & Co., 1891), Chapter III, Page 58
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes)
  • Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Writer: Oscar Wilde
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction, Philosophy
  • Published: 1890
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