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You see Dorian, you DON'T blackmail your ex gay lovers ffs.
Oh, and Basil deserved a proper burial with a tombstone that represented his love for art.

« There was romance in every place. But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. » – Chapter 14.

RIP Basil, Dorian never deserved you anyways.

« "There was nothing evil in it, nothing shameful. You were to me such anideal as I shall never meet again. This is the face of a satyr.""It is the face of my soul.""Christ! what a thing I must have worshipped! It has the eyes of a devil.""Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wildgesture of despair. » – Chapter 13.

The conversation between Dorian and Basil in chapter 12 was absolutely captivating. It was heartbreaking to read Basil's disappointment based on his morals and Dorian's pride and prepotency in delighting over his "friend's" pain. How much has changed between them and it HURTS.

« [...] a world in which things would have fresh shapes and colours, and be changed, or have other secrets, a world in which the past would have little or no place, or survive, at any rate, in no conscious form of obligation or regret, the remembrance even of joy having its bitterness and the memories of pleasure their pain. » – Chapter 11

« [...] either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality [...] » – Chapter 11

Basil's obsession for Dorian is just poetic and tragic, because Dorian doesn't deserve half the man Basil is.