The Picture of Dorian Gray [Original 1890 Text]

“How sad it is!” murmured Dorian Gray, with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. “How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June … If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this – for this – I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!”

This is the 13 Chapter version as originally published in 1890 in Lippincot's Magazine, not the much more common/available 20 Chapter version published in 1891.