Chapter 2
Lord Henry in the garden: 'Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!'
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From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The novel's obsessive theme is the terror of losing youth and beauty -- the very anxiety Lord Henry plants in Dorian and that the portrait literalizes.
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