The Picture of Dorian Gray - Down To Sleep #2

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Down To Sleep

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4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A softly spoken story reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde to help you get down to sleep.Listen ad-free and hear exclusive books, and 2 episodes a week, by joining Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleep(You can listen to the Patreon version on any device or app including Spotify!)All the links you needPatreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleepListen on YouTube (More Books): https://www.youtube.com/DownToSleepInstagram: https://www.Instagram.com/DownToSleepPodcastCreated & Narrated by MadMorph: https://www.madmorph.comWebsite: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com Down To Sleep is a podcast to fall asleep to. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there and welcome to episode two of Down to Sleep, a podcast of softly spoken stories
0:06.6	for you to fall asleep with. If you would like to get a version of this podcast that is twice as long
0:12.0	and is ad-free, then you can go to patreon.com slash down to sleep. Supporters get bonus episodes
0:19.5	at least once a week. Otherwise, enjoy this podcast,
0:23.8	and let's get down to sleep. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and
0:31.0	conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
0:41.5	The highest is the lowest form of criticism is mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in
0:48.5	beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
0:56.7	Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.
1:01.0	For these there is hope.
1:02.4	They are the elect, to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
1:07.3	There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
1:10.7	Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
1:16.1	The 19th century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
1:22.2	The 19th century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
1:28.7	The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art
1:34.2	consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything.
1:41.4	Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical
1:47.1	sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist
1:53.7	can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue
2:00.0	are to the artist materials for an art. From the virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
2:02.6	From the point of view of form, the type of all arts is the art of the musician, from the point of view of feeling the actor's craft is the type.
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