Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality: A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
CHAPTER VI. (VIII).
44 we live in age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us; (138)
48 all the terrible beauty of a great tragedy....(148)
49 I had buried my romance in a bed of poppies. (150)
49 absolutely true, and it explains everything." (152)
50 "But suppose, Harry I became haggard, and gray, and wrinkled?" What then?" (153)