My decision was violent and simple; yet the thoughts that led up to it were so complicated and contradictory that I could not retrace them now.
我的决定激烈而简单;可促成它的思绪如此复杂、如此矛盾,如今已无法重新梳理。
— G. K. Chesterton · Manalive · Part II · II · The Two Curates; or, the Burglary Charge —