晩餐结束后,我们离开餐厅。两位朋友刚好走在前头,王尔德忽然把我拉到一旁说:“你习惯用眼睛听话吧。”他这话说得没头没脑的,“所以我要跟你说个故事:纳西瑟斯死后,原野花朵们向河流要些水滴,想为他的死哀悼哭泣。河流回答:“唉!如果我的水滴都是眼泪,那给我自己哭泣都不够用了,毕竟我深爱过他。”花朵们说:唉!怎么可能不爱纳西瑟斯呢?他真是太俊美了。河流说:他很俊美吗?花朵们说:你应当最清楚不是吗?他每天都靠在河岸边,看着河水顾影自赏呢……》 王尔德停顿了半响。 河流回答:“我之所以爱他,是因为当他倾身凝视河面时,我在他眼中看到了自己的倒影。” 语毕,王尔德放声大笑,接着说:“这个故事叫作《门徒》。”

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1、You admired my work when it was finished: you enjoyed the brilliant successes of my first nights, and the brilliant banquets that followed them: you were proud, and quite naturally so, of being the intimate friend of an artist so distinguished: but you could not understand the conditions requisite for the production of artistic work. I am not speaking in phrases of rhetorical exaggeration but in terms of absolute truth to actual fact when I remind you that during the whole time we were together I never wrote one single line. Whether at Torquay, Goring, London, Florence or elsewhere, my life, as long as you were by my side, was entirely sterile and uncreative. And with but few intervals you were, I regret to say, by my side always. 2、I knew, if I allowed mysel to hate you, that in the dry desert of existence over which I had to travel, and am travelling still, every rock would lose its shadow, every palm tree be withered, every well of water prove poisoned at its source . 3、仇恨会蒙蔽人的双眼,这点你是不知道的。爱能读懂写在最遥远星星上的诗篇,恨却令人眼育,除了你狭隘封闭、已被贪婪之火烤枯的欲望之园外,你一无所见。你严重缺乏想象力,这是你性格中一个真正致命的缺陷,而这完全是你内心的仇恨产生的结果。你的仇恨不断地噬咬着你的天性,就像是苔藓啃噬山毛柳的根,最后你眼中除了一些最粗劣的兴趣和最微小的目标外,别无他物。本应由爱培养的能力已被恨侵蚀毒害,陷于瘫痪。当你父亲首次攻击我时,他把自己当成你的密友并给你写了一封私密的信。当我读到那封充满了下流威胁和粗鄙暴力的密信时,我马上意识到一个可怕的灾难正向我苦难的岁月森然逼近。我告诉你我不会夹在你们这对有着宿怨旧仇的父子中间,成为你们彼此报复对方的工具。对于你父亲,身处伦敦的我比起在霍姆堡的外交大臣自然是一个更大的攻击目标,把我放在这样的位置上哪怕是片刻都是不公平的。我生活中有更好的事情要去做,用不着和一个落魄愚笨的醉汉去大吵大闹。但你看不见这些,仇恨令你眼盲。 4、how clearly I saw it then, as now, I need not tell you. But I said to myself:34;At all costs I must keep love in my heart. If I go into prison without Love what will become of my soul?34; The letters I wrote to you at that time from Holloway were my efforts to keep Love as the dominant note of my own nature. 5、在一个人的生活中的每一瞬间,人都只能是他将要成为的人,而不是曾经成为的人。艺术是象征,因为人是象征。 6、神是奇怪的。他们不但借助我们的恶来惩罚我们,也利用我们内心的美好、善良、慈悲、关爱,来毁灭我们。要不是因为对你及你家人的怜悯和感情,我现在也不会在这人所不齿的地方哭泣。 当然,你我所有的交往,我看不光是命中注定,而且是在劫难逃:劫数从来是急急难逃,因为她疾步所向的,是血光之地。
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原作者:奥斯卡·王尔德

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作者奥斯卡·王尔德,Oscar Wilde(1854—1900年) 莎士比亚之后英国又一伟大的语言大师。唯美主义代言人。 王尔德出身名门,且天赋过人,20岁以全额奖学金考入牛津大学,在戏剧、小说、诗歌、童话等方面均留下传世作品。他衣着张扬,性情不羁,一生争议不断,博尔赫斯盛赞“没有一个人比他更有魅力”。1900年,王尔德于巴黎逝世,肉身虽逝,魅力却随文字存,... (更多)

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