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“沒有什麼比時常見面卻互不相識的人之間的關係更奇特，更棘手。這些人每天相遇，甚至每個小時相遇，互相打量，卻由於習俗規範或自己的古怪脾氣而被迫不打招呼，不發一言，表面上維持漠不關心的陌生。他們之間瀰漫著不安和被過度撩起的好奇，由於認識與交流需求未能滿足、違反自然地被壓抑而造成的緊張，尤其瀰漫著一種緊繃的敬意。因為在無法評斷對方之前，人都喜愛並尊敬對方。思慕是由於認識不足而產生。”
― MANN THOMAS, Death in Venice

“And then he said to himself, I thought I was rich because I had just one flower, and all I own is an ordinary rose. That and my three volcanoes, which come up to my knee, one of which may be permanently extinct. It doesn't make me much of a prince... And he lay down in the grass and wept.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Litte Prince

“海絲特那個貼著恥辱標誌的胸懷，其實是需要者最柔軟的枕頭。她要求自己成為慈善會的修女，或者更合適的說法，應該是儘管這個世界或她自己都沒有想過會變成這樣，但這個世界的沉重壓力卻注定她會這麼做。”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“But then the feeling would dissipate, and he would be left alone to scan the art section of the paper, and read about other people doing the kinds of things he didn't even have the expensiveness, the arrogance of imagination to dream of, and in those hours the world would feel very large, and the lake very empty, and the night very black, and he would wish he were back in Wyoming, waiting at the end of the road for Hemming, where the only path he had to navigate was the one back to his parents' house, where the porch light washed the night with honey.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life