I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.

我給你一個從未有過信仰的人的忠誠。

I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow-the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.

我給你我設法保全的我自己的核心——

不營字造句，不和夢想交易，

不被時間、歡樂和逆境觸動的核心。

I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.

我給你，早在你出生前多年的一個傍晚看到的一朵黃玫瑰的記憶。

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself,authentic and surprising news of yourself.

我給你你對自己的解釋，關于你自己的理論，你自己的真實而驚人的消息。

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

我給你我的寂寞、我的黑暗、我心的饑渴；我試圖用困惑、危險、失敗來打動你。

——1934 Jorge Luis Borges

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