“Ordinary people waited till life
disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of
life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the
effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately
with the passions and the intellect. But now and then a complex personality
took the place and assumed the office of art; was indeed, in its way, a real
work of art, Life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or
sculpture, or painting.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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