I could not possibly let you stand in front of that picture." "You will some day, surely ?" "Never." "Well, perhaps you are right.

And now good-bye, Dorian.

You have been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art.

Whatever I have done that is good, I owe to you.

Ah! you don't know what it cost me to tell you all that I have told you." "My dear Basil," said Dorian, "what have you told me?
Simply that you felt that you admired me too much.