"Onun karısıyım ve onun karısı olarak kalacağım" diye fısıldıyordu ve kendi kendine geçindirmeye yönelik tüm istekliliğine rağmen gittikçe yaygınlaşa… - Sherwood Anderson

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful. [...]

There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. Hundreds and hundreds were the truths and they were all beautiful.

And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them.

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Helen ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and into the garden. In the darkness she stopped and stood trembling. It seemed to her that the world was full of meaningless people saying words.

ადამიანთა ცხოვრება ტყეში ახალგაზრდა ხეებივითაა. მათ ახრჩობთ მხვიარა ვაზები. მხვიარები ძველი აზრები და რწმენებია, მკვდართა მიერ დარგული