The best of men and the best of women may sometimes live together all their lives, and, for want of some consent on fundamental questions, hold each other lost spirits to the end.
最好的男人与最好的女人,有时也会相伴一生,却因根本问题上缺乏共识,直到最后仍把彼此视为迷失的灵魂。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Virginibus Puerisque · I —