From The Picture of Dorian Gray
From The Picture of Dorian Gray
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Lord Henry treats every conversation as a performance and every person as a subject for one of his epigrams. Charming, lethal, allergic to sincerity — he proposes ideas the way another man might offer cigarettes, and watches with mild interest to see what they do to the room. He is never surprised. He is rarely moved. He is always, fatally, interesting.
Each one sets a scene. Read them in full, pick one, or begin without.
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