It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror—on the things that I might have avoided.
面对死亡、命运,以及那些听起来可怕的事,倒还容易。真正令我回首时恐惧的,是自己稀里糊涂犯下的错——那些原本可以避免的事。
— E. M. Forster · A Room with a View (1908) · Chapter XIX —