No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  • -- Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔·霍桑

在相当长的一段时间内,任何人在面对自己和大众时,都不能不弄清楚哪一张脸是真实的。

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

儿童的脸,就像动物的脸一样,是面具,而不是脸,因为他们还没有形成自己的显著特征。

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

戴着骇人而严峻的面具,岁月以一列纵队流逝;但没有一个人值得我害怕,也没有一个人能完全逃脱我的微笑。