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.
В иные минуты Дориану Грею казалось, что вся история человечества - лишь летопись его собственной жизни, не той действительной, созданной обстоятельствами, а той, которой он жил в своем воображении, покорный требованиям мозга и влечениям страстей.