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The Picture of Dorian Gray ‧ 1890
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker admits disliking relatives and proposes a self-critical reason: people resent seeing their own faults in others. Family irritation becomes a response to familiar flaws reflected back at oneself. The admission makes the complaint wry, since it implicates the speaker along with the relations.
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