Oscar Wilde. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (№ 212692)

And there were many (especially among young people) of people who saw Dorian Gray, the ideal of which they dreamed in his student years, - a combination of genuine culture scientist with charm and refined manners of a fashionable man, a citizen of the world. He seemed to be one of those who, as Dante says, "seeks to ennoble the soul by the worship of beauty."