nightmarist:[[ Dorian Gray // Sibyl Vane ]]❝ Before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my lif
nightmarist:[[ Dorian Gray // Sibyl Vane ]]❝ Before I knew you, acting was the one reality of my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all true. I was Rosalind one night and Portia the other. The joy of Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine also. I believed in everything. The common people who acted with me seemed to me to be godlike. The painted scenes were my world. I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came – oh, my beautiful love! – and you freed my soul from prison. You taught me what reality really is. To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played. ❞ — Sibyl Vane, Chapter 7, The Picture of Dorian Gray -- source link