We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

– Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 8. Dorian wakes up to a bunch of letters that he opens disinterestedly. They are said to contain "the usual collection of cards, invitations to dinner, tickets for private views, programmes of charity concerts, and the like that are showered on fashionable young men every morning during the season." But among them is one very important letter from Lord Henry, which he puts aside and leaves unopened. It would tell him that Sibyl Vane has killed herself with poison. This quote is also be a reminder of how in this century we too much time on technology and cell phones and social media, unncessary things which have become today’s necessities.