White nights, and other stories

I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.

我是一个病人……我是一个怀有恶意的人。我是一个不讨人喜欢的人。

I have been going on like that for a long time—twenty years. Now I am forty.

我这样过日子已经很久了——二十年。现在我四十岁了。