Lying back in the hansom, with his hat pulled over his forehead, Dorian Gray watched with listless eyes the sordid shame of the great city, and now and then he repeated to himself the words that Lord Henry had said to him on the first day they had met, "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul."
Kotxean atzeraka etzanez, kapela kopeta gainean botata zuela, ezer antsiatzen ez zuten begi haiez, hiriburuko lotsaren nazkagarritasun hura ikusten zuen Dorian Grayk; eta noizean behin, Lord Henryk, ezagutu zireneko lehendabiziko egun hartan, esan zizkion hitzak errepikatzen zituen bere buruarentzako: "Arima zentzuen bidez sendatu, eta zentzuak arimaren bidez".