I am constructed like everybody else, and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do like to have the other side presented. And there is another side. I have a wicked side. Estimable friends who know all about it would tell you and take a certain delight in telling you things that I have done, and things further that I have not repented. The real life that I live, and the real life that I suppose all of you live, is a life of interior sin. That is what makes life valuable and pleasant. To lead a life of undiscovered sin! That is true joy.
Mark Twain: Speeches
本人和各位一样也是肉身凡人，和其他傻瓜一样好听恭维，不过我还是乐意展示我的另一面。另外一面的确存在。我有着坏的一面。我那些为人敬重的朋友们对此一清二楚，他们自会告诉诸位，我的所作所为他们自然津津乐道，有些事情我并不后悔。我经历的活生生的生活，我想你们诸位所经历的活生生的生活，都是内心感到罪孽的生活。生活因此而变得可贵可喜。过一种永远无法揭开的罪孽的生活。那才真叫快活。
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