I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

我想,在我们每个人的生活中,都有一个朋友,他似乎不是一个独立的人,无论他多么可爱,多么受人爱戴,而是对自我的扩展和诠释。