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By Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
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- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 · p. 325
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- Internet Archive (University of California scan of the 1891 book edition, London and New York: Ward, Lock)
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From Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (London and New York: Ward, Lock, 1891), the book edition with the added chapters and the Preface. The line is spoken by the character Lord Henry Wotton near the end of the book, as he tells Dorian that being "poisoned by a book" is impossible.