It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent.
—Notes from Underground, Novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
我现在清楚地意识到,我那毫无节制的虚荣心和极高的自我准则,导致我总是怀着强烈的不满来审视自己。
——《地下室手记》费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基,小说家