西西弗斯的神话

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

我必须承认，我从来看不出她有什么美丽之处。她的脸太瘦了，她的肤色没有光泽，她的五官一点也不好看。她的鼻子缺乏特色；它的线条上没有任何标志。她的牙齿还过得去，但并不出奇；至于她的眼睛，有时被称为很漂亮，我从来没看出什么非凡之处。