I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.
我不怕孤独,不怕被抛弃而让位于别人,也不怕离开一切我必须离开的东西。我也不怕犯错,哪怕是大错、终身的错,甚至是延续到永恒的错。
— James Joyce · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · Chapter V —