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The Picture of Dorian Gray

CHAPTER 1
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions.
How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church.

But then in the Church they don't think.


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