“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
英语
“经验不过是人们给自己的错误起的名字。”
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
英语
“摆脱诱惑的唯一方式就是屈服于它。”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
英语
“世人所谓不道德的书，是向世人展示其自身耻辱的书。”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
英语
“活着是世上最稀有的事。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
英语
“我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
英语
“除了诱惑，我什么都能抵挡。”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
英语
“愤世嫉俗者是一个知道一切东西的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值的人。”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
英语
“每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
英语
“真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。”
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, / By each let this be heard, / Some do it with a bitter look, / Some with a flattering word.”
英语
“然而每个人都杀死他所爱的，/让每个人都听见这话，/有人用苦涩的目光，/有人用恭维的话语。”
“I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. I had realised this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and had forced my age to realise it afterwards.”
英语
“我是一个与自己时代的艺术和文化有着象征性关系的人。在我青年时代伊始，我自己就意识到了这一点，此后又迫使我的时代也意识到了这一点。”