The picture of Dorian Gray

via Daily Prompt: Gray

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.

–Love?
-An Illusion.

–Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.

–You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

–What are you?
-To define is to limit.”

The above is an Excerpt from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” written by  Oscar Wilde.

This Novel caused quite a stir in victorian England it was edited/censored/revised many times before and after being published.

Labelled in the 19th century as morally inappropriate, offensive, effeminate, and contaminating.

A book that did not go down well with the Victorian sensibilities —critics and readers alike.

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