Sin is a thing that writes it...

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man‘s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends. Yours seem to lose all sense of honour, of goodness, of purity. You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You led them there.

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The man had to touch him twice on the shoulder before he woke, and as he opened his eyes a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had been lost in some delightful dream. Yet he had not dreamed at all. His night had been untroubled by any images of pleasure or of pain. But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

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Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent, blood-stained feet into his brain and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness. He winced at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment the same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him kill him as he sat in the chair came back to him, and he grew cold with passion. The dead man was still sitting there, too, and in the sunlight now. How horrible that was! Such hideous things were for the darkness, not for the day.

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Sur une gamme chromatique,
          Le sein de peries ruisselant,
  La Venus de l‘Adriatique
          Sort de l‘eau son corps rose et blanc.
  
  
  Les domes, sur l‘azur des ondes
          Suivant la phrase au pur contour,
  S‘enflent comme des gorges rondes
          Que souleve un soupir d‘amour.
  
  
  L‘esquif aborde et me depose,
          Jetant son amarre au pilier,
  Devant une facade rose,
          Sur le marbre d‘un escalier.
  

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˝Each of us has heaven and he...

"Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.


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The surface seemed to be quite undisturbed and as he had left it. It was from within, apparently, that the foulness and horror had come. Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away. The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.

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Dorian Gray glanced at the picture, and suddenly an uncontrollable feeling of hatred for Basil Hallward came over him, as though it had been suggested to him by the image on the canvas, whispered into his ear by those grinning lips. The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything. He glanced wildly around.

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He rushed at him and dug the knife into the great vein that is behind the ear, crushing the man‘s head down on the table and stabbing again and again.

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There was a stifled groan and the horrible sound of some one choking with blood. Three times the outstretched arms shot up convulsively, waving grotesque, stiff-fingered hands in the air. He stabbed him twice more, but the man did not move. Something began to trickle on the floor. He waited for a moment, still pressing the head down. Then he threw the knife on the table, and listened.

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The thing was still seated in the chair, straining over the table with bowed head, and humped back, and long fantastic arms. Had it not been for the red jagged tear in the neck and the clotted black pool that was slowly widening on the table, one would have said that the man was simply asleep.

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The friend who had painted the fatal portrait to which all his misery had been due had gone out of his life. That was enough.

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[오늘의 한문장] The Picture of Dorian Gray

It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards.
  

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[오늘의 한문장] The Picture of Dorian Gray

He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment. He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.

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*It was a novel without a plo...

*It was a novel without a plot:
Huysmans‘s <A rebours> which was regarded as one of the most significant writings of literary Decadence in France. Huysmans‘s novel features a wealthy aesthete, Duc Jean des Esseintes, who sequesters himself in his luxurious home in order to savour erotic fantasies and sensuous experiences that generate sensations that he fears he will not find in reality.(106p. ch.10) - P211

*nine large-paper copies of the first edition:
Huysmans‘s <A rebours> was published by the Parisian publisher Charpentier in a standard edition, as well as an exclusive edition of ten copies on Dutch handmade paper and ten copies on Japanese handmade paper.
*the hero were strangely blended:
implicitly, Des Esseintes in Huysmans‘s <A rebours>.
*that somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors... still water:
Des Esseintes in Huysmans‘s <A rebours> has no such dread; in chapter 1, the narrator states that Des Esseintes designed a ‘boudoir‘ or bedroom that featured the following furnishing, textures, and scents: "This bedroom, where mirrors mirrored one another and reflected an infinite series of pink boudoirs on the walls, had been celebrated among the prostitutes, who loved to soak their nakedness in this bath of rosy warmth, perfumed by the minty aroma coming from the wood of the furniture‘ (Huysmans, 10). (108p. ch.11) - P212