自我
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
我沒有什麽可申報的，除了我的天資。
I can resist everything except temptation.
除了**，我什麽都能抗拒。
Good taste is the excuse I’ve always given for leading such a bad life.
我那高貴的品位正是我經常過得如此糟糕的理由。
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
我的作品是在我不懂生活的時候寫出來的。現在我明白了生活的意義，再沒什麽可寫的了。生活不是拿來寫的，是拿來生活的。
I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability.
有時我認為上帝在造人的時候有些高估自己。
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of his reason.
我不禁想這樣定義人類：人是理性的動物。但他被要求理性行事的時候，可又要發脾氣了。
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
我喜歡看戲。與人生相比，戲劇更加真實。
I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
比起原則，我更喜歡人。在這個世界上，我最喜歡的是毫無原則的人。
I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
我不喜歡像你這樣總談論自己的人，因為我現在隻想談論我自己。
The worst thing you can do for a person of genius is to help him: that way lies his destruction. I have had many devoted helpers—and you see the result.
你能對天才做的最糟糕的事情就是幫助他：那會毀掉他。有很多人一心一意地想幫助我——結果你也看到了。
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
是的，我是一個夢想家。一個夢想家隻能在月光下找尋他的道路，而對他的懲罰就是讓他在世人之前看到黎明。
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
每當別人讚同我，我便覺得自己一定錯了。
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
我總是感到驚奇，這是唯一令生活有價值的事。
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
我花了一整個早上校對我的一首詩，我去掉了一個逗號。下午我又把它加回去了。
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
我不想去天堂，我的朋友都不在那裏。