A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

我让我的灵魂穿越无形，去拼读那来世的信：不久后我的灵魂回到我身边，回答说“我自己就是天堂和地狱。”