Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."" I hate them for it, " cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray. . Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde is famous for writing the play, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", that revolves around the character of Dorian Gray. The story takes place in London long before the common era. It is during this setting that Wilde wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray." This quote is one of many quotes by Oscar Wilde, and it is one of his most famous quotes. This quote was published in his book, "The Picture of Dorian Grey".

The plot of this novel revolves around Dorian Gray. He has an apparently perfect life with wealth and fame, but one day he realizes that it isn't what he thought it was; he wishes to look young forever. He attempts to take the life of Lord Henry Wotton, who knows how to make him look younger, though he soon learns that he cannot take away his soul any more than he can take away his age.

He decides to become a painter, but after seeing the portrait he painted, he looks at himself and wonders if art can be anything more than a mirror for our own sins.

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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