I then thought that people with tuberculosis always especially elicit people's sympathies. What the ailment requires is sunlight and travel, and so it occurs in many poets and literary people. But my own sickness makes me suffer so much--it's not the slightest bit romantic. "
又想到肺癆的病人總是特別惹人疼惜，而且他們的病需要的是陽光與旅行，因此產生許多詩人及文學家；而自己的病卻須忍受如此的折磨，半點都浪漫不起來。