每个人都是一个宇宙

叔本华把读书太滥譬作将自己的头脑变成别人思想的跑马场。爱默生也说：“我宁愿从来没有看见过一本书，而不愿意被它的吸力扭曲过来，把我完全拉到我的轨道外面，使我成为一颗卫星，而不是一个宇宙。”

一粒红尘

那是一个离我的生活很遥远、很遥远的一个世界。我沉默着与之对峙，心里默默地计算着抵达它的时间丈量着我与它之间的距离。

双城记

这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代。这是智慧的时代，这是愚蠢的时代。这是希望的春天，这是失望的冬天。人们应有尽有，人们一无所有。 人们直通天堂，人们直达地狱。

自深深处

You admired my work when it was finished: you enjoyed the brilliant successes of my first nights, and the brilliant banquets that followed them: you were proud, and quite naturally so, of being the intimate friend of an artist so distinguished: but you could not understand the conditions requisite for the production of artistic work. I am not speaking in phrases of rhetorical exaggeration but in terms of absolute truth to actual fact when I remind you that during the whole time we were together I never wrote one single line. Whether at Torquay, Goring, London, Florence or elsewhere, my life, as long as you were by my side, was entirely sterile and uncreative. And with but few intervals you were, I regret to say, by my side always.