From Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Later, it appeared with the title of owl, "Good-looking skins are the same, and interesting souls are one in a million."
Original text: "There are too many beautiful faces and too few interesting souls".
Interpretation: There are many good-looking people, but few people with interesting souls.
Don't chase people's appearance too much. Look at a person not superficially, but also look at the inside and understand the essence of this person. Inner beauty is the most valuable and worth cherishing.
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Beautiful skins are the same, and interesting souls are one in a million. It is a book published by Modern Publishing House in June 2065438+2008. The writer is an owl from Lao Yang.
This book is divided into 25 themes and consists of 50 short stories. The author uses the writing technique of seeing the big from the small to express a lot of meaning and attitude towards life.
brief Introduction of the content
Remind you that "if there is something really worth fighting for, it should be respect, not disagreement"; Advise you that "you really don't need to change yourself for anyone, but you can't get used to being useless"; Tell you that "introverts don't have to envy others' grandstanding"; Expose your "idleness is not equal to literary youth, and life is boring because of lack of sense of ceremony";
Tell you "don't be with people who consume you, and don't be a consumer of others"; It reminds you that "there is no boring life, only a boring attitude towards life" … and hopes to help you "turn this world that is about to be captured by boredom into your playground".
So, never face the world unkempt, you are so timid, do you still want the world to smile at you?
Dorian gray is a novel written by British playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde, and it is also his only novel. His works began to be serialized in the American magazine Lippincourt in July 1890, and were published as a separate book in the following year.
Controversy of works
Because the novel involves people's moral right and wrong, and the author has not made a clear attitude, it was criticized by the British publishing house after publication: "This book is the product of the leprosy monster of French decadent literature, and it is a poisonous book, full of the stench of moral and spiritual decay." When the London court tried Wilde's "immoral case", it even took this book as one of the evidences of his guilt.
Critics regard Dorian Gray as a "devil", but Wilde insists that Dorian is innocent: "His sins were imposed on him by those who found him guilty."