...or might convey in less arcane forms. Wilde himself acknowledges this strategy more tendentiously: "What Dorian Gray's sins are no one knows. He who finds them has brought them" (Letters 266). But that refusal also sustains the "vagueness or impenetrability" that, as Simmel notes,...

...pays for one's sins, and then one pays again, and all one's life one pays. Mrs. Erlynne in Fan, act 3. Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them. Leners, r66. Written to the Editor, Scots Observer, on luly 9. 1 890 in deterne of Dorun Gray, Sins...

...vague accusations. And in the controversy that erupted with the magazine version, Wilde's tu quoque — 'Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them' (Letters, 266) — does nothing to staunch the flow. The reviews to which Wilde responded in the summer...

...unflattering review of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The relevant part says: "Each man sees his own sins in Dorian Gray. What Dorian Gray's sins are no one knows. He who finds them has brought them." Lawler, op. cit., p. 34734. This is one instance where Wilde should be taken at his word. Wilde's reply...

...that the reviewer has been guilty of "confusfing] the artist with his subject-matter," and continues: It was necessary, sir, for the dramatic development...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them. This, though eloquent, is surely disingenuous: the "atmosphere" of the book is not so "vague and indeterminate"...

...the reader. In a famous letter to the editor of the Scots Observer (9 July 1890), Wilde claims that "Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them" (A as C, 248). Wilde's claim supports his assertion in the preface that "It is the spectator, not life,...

...wrote in a letter defending his novel, in words that might be taken to heart by his modern critics: "Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them." 33 The identification of this novel as one that reveals its author's homosexuality therefore hinges,...

...the end' (J} 102). 9. In reply to a negative review of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Wilde wrote 'Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them' ('Mr Wilde's Rejoinder', Scots Observer, 4/86 (12 July 1890), 279). 10. 'and in my misery it was revealed...

...An Inqu1ry 1nto Oscar Wilde's Revisions of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1988). 17 As Wilde claimed, 'Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian...no one knows. He who finds them has brought them' (Mason, 81). 18 Eyries, Tales of the Dead: The Ghost Stories of the V1lla Diodati, translated by Terry...

...atmosphere [of 'moral corruption'] vague and indeterminate and wonderful was the aim of the artist. . . . What Dorian Gray's sins are no one knows. He who finds them has brought them." 54 But this review was another uncanny foreshadowing of Wilde's own trial, in which he would play the...