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Quotation from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything!”
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #174 (1891 text))
Dorian's wish before the finished portrait, made just after Lord Henry has taught him to dread the loss of his youth.
Citation: "If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything!" — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #174 (1891 text)). (id the-picture-of-dorian-gray-q3)
Portrait: Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated, Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
