Oscar Wilde: "Ada saat-saat ketika bagi Dorian Gray tampak bahwa selur...

"Ada saat-saat ketika bagi Dorian Gray tampak bahwa seluruh sejarah hanyalah catatan hidupnya sendiri, bukan seperti yang dia jalani saat beraksi dan berjalan, tetapi seperti imajinasinya yang telah menciptakannya untuknya, seperti dalam sejarahnya. otak dan hasratnya. Dia merasa bahwa dia telah mengenal mereka semua, tokoh-tokoh mengerikan aneh yang telah melewati panggung dunia dan membuat dosa begitu luar biasa, dan kejahatan begitu penuh kehalusan. Baginya, dalam suatu cara misterius, hidup mereka adalah miliknya sendiri."

--- Oscar Wilde

Versi Bahasa Inggris

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.