The wide lawn spreads out before me almost to the golden surf of the sea, separated by the narrow dark tan band of the beach. The setting sun is bright and warm, the breeze a gentle caress against my arms and face. - P363

I run. Like Snow White through the forest. Like Cinderella as the clock strikes midnight. Like the Monkey King trying to escape the Buddha’s hand. Like Aeneas pursued by Juno’s stormy rage. I unspool the string as a sudden gust of wind makes me squint, my heart thumping in time with my pumping legs. - P363

I look over and see Mom striding across the lawn, her long black hair streaming in the breeze like the kite’s tails. She stops before me, kneels on the grass, wraps me in a hug, squeezing my face against hers. She smells like her shampoo, like summer rain and wildflowers, a fragrance that I get to experience only once every few weeks. - P364

This has always been part of the pattern too: my trying to break their pattern. I can’t help but think there’s a simple solution, something I can do to make it all better. - P364


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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,
but that one is young.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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Youth! There is nothing like it. It‘s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth.

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"Yes, life has been exquisite," he murmured,

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"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book to any one. It does harm."
  

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As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all. But we won‘t discuss literature.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
  

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Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not "Forgive us our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

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"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

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It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him.

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A cry of pain and indignation broke from him. He could see no change, save that in the eyes there was a look of cunning and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite. The thing was still loathsome--more loathsome, if possible, than before--and the scarlet dew that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly spilled.

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There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife. Confess?

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Through vanity he had spared her. In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity‘s sake he had tried the denial of self. He recognized that now.

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The picture itself--that was evidence

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It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience.

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When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

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"‘Like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart.‘"
(180p. ch.19) - P180

‘Like the painting of a sorrow... heart‘: Shakespeare, Hamlet (IV. vii).
‘what does it profit a man... his own soul‘: ‘For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?‘ (Mark 8: 36). - P228


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나는 엄마에게 인간의 의식을 스캔하기란 너무나 어렵다거나, 실리콘에서 탄소 기반 연산 과정을 재현하기란 너무나 복잡하다거나, 인간의 연약한 뇌라는 하드웨어를 마침내 업그레이드하는 날은 너무나 가까워 보이면서도 한편으로는 너무나 멀게 느껴진다거나 하는 얘기를 들려준다. 대부분 나의 독백이다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P20


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Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.

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"Culture and corruption," echoed Dorian. "I have known something of both. It seems terrible to me now that they should ever be found together. For I have a new ideal, Harry. I am going to alter. I think I have altered."

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"The people are still discussing poor Basil‘s disappearance."

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"Harry, did it ever occur to you that Basil was murdered?"

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I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

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One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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It used to remind me of those curious lines in some play--Hamlet, I think--how do they run?--
  
  "Like the painting of a sorrow,
  A face without a heart."


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Lord Henry laughed. "If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart," he answered, sinking into an arm-chair.
  

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Dorian Gray shook his head and struck some soft chords on the piano. "‘Like the painting of a sorrow,‘" he repeated, "‘a face without a heart.‘"

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"By the way, Dorian," he said after a pause, "‘what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose--how does the quotation run?--his own soul‘?"

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"Don‘t, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it."

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