“It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die. ‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
机器翻译,仅供参考:
“可悲的是,很少有人在死前‘拥有自己的灵魂’。爱默生说,没有什么比他自己的行为更罕见的了,这是真的。大多数人都是别人。他们的思想是别人的意见,他们的生活是模仿,他们的激情是引语。”
―奥斯卡王尔德