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Eighteen years," laughed Dorian Gray, with a touch of triumph in his voice. "Eighteen years! Set me under the lamp and look at my face!

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: Irish

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Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his soul, and desire had come to meet it on the way.

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I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m.

Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.

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