The past is never dead; it's not even past. This is especially true in detective fiction.

过去从未消逝，它甚至没有过去。这在侦探小说中尤其如此。

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

对于好的建议，唯一能做的就是传递它。它对自己从来没有任何用处。

"I can resist everything except temptation."

除了诱惑，我什么都能抵抗。

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

经验只是我们给错误起的名字。

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

世界称之为不道德的书，是那些展示世界自身羞耻的书。

"To define is to limit."

定义就是限制。

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是屈服于它。

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

每个人都有不为世人所知的秘密悲伤；我们常常称一个人冷漠，其实他只是悲伤。