Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
怜悯是一种情感:当人面对人类苦难中任何沉重而持久的东西时,它使心神凝驻,并与受苦者相连。
— James Joyce · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · Chapter V —