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The power to influence another can be a gift or a curse.

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"It was a poisonous book. The heavy odor of incense seemed to cling about its pages and trouble the brain"

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He's seems to just be brilliant a scientist but his life was ruined when Dorian reared his head. He took this promising young man, befriended him, presumably corrupted him, and then the two friends broke up. Then he is blackmailed by Dorian to destroy the evidence of an innocence man which destroys him so much that he commits suicide.

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He is just another example of Dorian's corrupting influence on just about everyone he meets. Because of Dorian's influence, Dorian had damned him to a life as a addict in a opium den.

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"He played with this idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox"

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I am changed, and the mere touch of Sibyl's Vane's hand makes me forget you and all your wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories

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Lord Henry’s philosophies and paradoxes have a corrupting power that cause Dorian to seek knowledge and believe in these theories enough that he lives by them. Henry’s suggestion that the soul and the senses can cure each other, for example, latch onto Dorian’s mind and tricks him into thinking that opium could soothe his soul.

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At first, Basil is influenced emotionally by Dorian living him confused by his hearts desires but Dorian’s influence is also able to change Basil's ability to painting, and to change the painting itself in an almost supernatural way.

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By Oscor Wilde

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One person can influence another for good or bad, but usually the power of that influence depends on who is the one influencing and the one being influenced

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The same curse befalls Sybil Vane, when she is so influenced by Dorian, and by love, that she is transformed and can no longer act