When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?
当一个人撰写自传时，应该对自己不留情面。可是为人们为什么总是在还没开始吐露实情之前，内心的坚强就被无止尽的自我同情和敏感的泪水融化了呢？

——Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
——乔治·贝尔纳诺斯，《乡村牧师的日记》