And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

  • -- Robert Boyle 罗伯特·博伊尔

我还想说的是,那些心烦意乱的人常常会满怀信心地认为,当他们醒着的时候,他们在一些地方看到了黑人恶魔,而在这些地方,没有他们,就看不到任何黑人的东西。

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Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

从我十二岁起,我就梦想成为一名作家。我只是从来没有勇气去完成我的任何一个故事。我会开始一本书,读上几章,然后变得无聊或被其他事情分心。

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

我习惯了睡觉,也习惯了在梦中想象疯子醒来时所想象的事情。