"Having carried out research for sixty years, only now can I be considered to have begun to understand a little the literature of the pre-Ch'in." This deathbed exclamation of Bernhard Karlgren, the founding father of Swedish sinology and world famous scholar of comparative linguistics, made a deep impression as it fell on the ears of his top student--Goran Malmqvist.
瑞典漢學開山始祖，也是世界知名的比較語言學家高本漢曾在臨終前嘆道：「我搞了六十年的研究，現在總算開始有點懂得先秦文學了。」