We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its own shade.
我们每个人脑中都有某种执念,比其他一切更相信它,并让全部经历都染上它的色彩。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Virginibus Puerisque · I —