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 circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions.
Zenbait boladatan, iruditzen zitzaion Dorian Grayri, historia osoa ez zela bere bizitza propioaren erreproduktzio soil bat besterik; ez berak benetan ekintza eta zirkustantzia guztietan bizi zuen bezala, baizik eta bere irudimenak berarentzat apropos sortu izan balu bezala;