“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

-Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities "

搜双城记时蛮喜欢的一段话，感觉我有一堆书需要恶补，双城记当时我只读了序言，最近还在看大悲才意识到双城记的序言说“这是智慧的时代，这是愚昧的时代”也是指法国大革命。不过这段序言放到任何时候看都不过时。