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The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Blog Posts
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde(The Picture of Dorian Gray)
More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me
Bonus content:
"mutuals can ask for discord" mutuals can haunt me after they die. mutuals can paint my immortal youth in a cursed portrait. mutuals can build a 8ft tall creature in my college dorm. mutuals can watch me wake up as a monstrous vermin. mutuals can feed me soup after i commit murder. mutuals can help me kill uncle claudius. mutuals can go out with me and my girlfriend from across the bay. mutuals can hunt the beast with me. do better
My favorite thing ever is Dorian going "Women are so emotional" In the very same chapter that he flung himself onto a sofa, collapsed onto a chair, sobbed, and believed himself to be going insane.
perpetually torn between:
taking classic literature seriously and over analysing every detail so that I can deeply understand themes, motifs and references and absorb every poetic quote into my being OR treating classics as if they were just silly little stories about silly little gay people doing the most weird, unhinged and out of context shit ever (which they are)
the picture of dorian gray // oscar wilde
You’ll read a classic and it’ll be 3 pages of pure dialogue but it’s just one dude going on and on in paragraphs about one minuscule detail
The more I learn about Oscar Wilde, the more I feel like we would have been besties.
How Dorian Gray and Basil are NOT siblings ❤️🥀💕✨
Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers
Do I think Dorian is a piece of shit? Yes, I do
Is he still my precious baby boy who can do no wrong? Also yes
This quote still makes me go absolutely feral. Like hellooo?? "The curves of your lips rewrite history" ??????!!!!! AAAAAAAA how do ppl write so beautifully. Screaming crying throwing up
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”