世界上充满了这样的人，他们对满意未来的概念实际上是对理想化过去的回归。
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
城市不仅是一个场景，它是我小说中的另一个角色。
In the dictatorship, time stands still.
遇到坏事不必愁，只要有方法补救；好事来临也不必欢喜，要会承受。
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
化妆可以让一个人看起来更漂亮，但却掩饰不了丑陋的内心。除非谁能把化妆品吃掉。
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue.
对待侮辱最好的回应就是「你可能是对的」。而事实经常确是如此。
——1896年，伦敦蒙难后许多人问孙：“我们看到你，你这位先生的革命事业不知道失败过多少次了，为什么还不丧气，总是这么热心呢？这是什么理由呢？”