... but is also to be found in the novel when Dorian Gray blames Lord Henry for having poisoned him with a book: you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book to any one. It does harm. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence ... and literature."" Quite surprisingly, some writers, who know Wilde well, are wrong when they say that the events of the book do not contradict Wilde's own preface to the book. Wilde's mistake, as he admits in his letter to the editor of St. James Gazette...

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