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Of course I know that from one point of view things will be made different for me than for others; must indeed, by the very nature of the case, be made so. The poor thieves and outcasts who are imprisoned1 here with me are in many respects more fortunate than I am. The little way in grey city or green field that saw their sin is small; to find those who know nothing of what they have done they need go no further than a bird might fly between the twilight2 and the dawn; but for me the world is shrivelled to a handsbreadth, and everywhere I turn my name is written on the rocks in lead. For I have come, not from obscurity into the momentary3 notoriety of crime, but from a sort of eternity4 of fame to a sort of eternity of infamy5, and sometimes seem to myself to have shown, if indeed it required showing, that between the famous and the infamous6 there is but one step, if as much as one.
Still, in the very fact that people will recognise me wherever I go, and know all about my life, as far as its follies7 go, I can discern something good for me. It will force on me the necessity of again asserting myself as an artist, and as soon as I possibly can. If I can produce only one beautiful work of art I shall be able to rob malice8 of its venom9, and cowardice10 of its sneer12, and to pluck out the tongue of scorn by the roots.
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. People must adopt some attitude towards me, and so pass
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pictorially
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humility
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约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则) | |
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remorse
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pageant
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