"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 which dealt immediately with the passions & the intellect. But now & then a complex personality takes the place & assumes the office of art; & is indeed, in its way, a real work of art. Life has its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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