好的小说告诉我们角色的真相；伟大的小说告诉我们自己的真相。
我唯一的竞争对手是我自己。
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction， and in either case， he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.