The truth is, we each of us have an inborn conviction that the whole world, with everybody and everything in it, was created as a sort of necessary appendage to ourselves.
事实是,我们每个人生来都确信:整个世界及其中的所有人与事,仿佛都是为自己造出的必需附属品。
— Jerome K. Jerome · The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · On Vanity and Vanities —