— You told me you had destroyed it.
— I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.
I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.
Indeed, there were many, especially among the very young men, who saw, or fancied that they saw, in Dorian Gray the true realisation of a type of which they had often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days, a type that was to combine something of the real culture of the scholar with all the grace and distinction and perfect manner of a citizen of the world. To them he seemed to be of the company of those whom Dante describes as having sought to "make themselves perfect by the worship of beauty."
I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.
Yet he could not help feeling infinite pity for the painter who had just made this strange confession to him, and wondered if he himself would ever be so dominated by the personality of a friend.
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