The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the pretended, and Lucy’s first aim was to defeat herself.
这场较量并不发生在爱情与责任之间。也许从来就没有这样的较量。它发生在真实与伪装之间,而露西首先要击败的,正是她自己。
— E. M. Forster · A Room with a View (1908) · Chapter XVI —