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0最近正在读奥斯卡·王尔德所写的英文原版书《道林·格雷的画像》，这篇小说属于中篇小说，只有55000字，但我读得不快。之所以读得不快并不是由于小说中存在大量生词，相反其生词很少，更多因素是小说表现的主题有别于一般主题，其包涵着不少耐人寻味的句子，需要读者反复咀嚼。
王尔德著作的文风，向来优雅地道，且兼顾讽刺韵味。目前这本《道林·格雷的画像》我已看过半，书中出现了不少我十分喜爱的句子与段落，想分享給大家。
This scathingly satirical passage comes from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Lord Henry laughed."The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it. As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there an other and more interesting bonds between men and women.I will certainly encourage them. They have the charm of being fashionable. But here is Dorian himself. He will tell you more than I can.'
亨利勋爵笑了起来：“世人总愿意把旁人往好处想，根源不过是人人都在为自己担惊受怕。乐观主义的底色，全然是恐惧。我们自认心地宽厚，不过是愿意认定邻人身上拥有那些能惠及我们的美德。我们夸赞银行家，只为能透支账户；我们从拦路劫匪身上发掘优点，只求他能手下留情，不抢我们的钱财。我说的每一句话，句句属实。我打心底里鄙夷乐观。
至于所谓虚度人生，世上唯有停滞不前的人生，才算真正荒废。想要毁掉一个人的天性，只需强行改造他便够了。说到婚姻，那自然是荒唐至极，可男女之间另有别样、更有意思的牵绊，我反倒十分乐见这类关系，它们胜在时髦新奇。喏，多里安本人来了，他能跟你讲出比我更透彻的道理。”
书中下面两句有异曲同工之妙
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
于我而言，艺术遮蔽艺术家，远胜于彰显其人。
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.
展露艺术、隐藏艺术家，是艺术的目的。
下面这句我个人十分欣赏：
To define is to limit.
定义即限制。
后续等这本书读完，我再详细写写这本书的读后感，分享它带给我的点滴思考。
不知大家都读过奥斯卡·王尔德的哪些经典句子，欢迎评论区分享留言？
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