When I look back on my life, what strikes me is that I have been on the whole a very lucky man — and, above all, lucky in my friends.

当我回望我这一生，给我印象最深的就是我一直非常幸运——最重要的是，我非常幸运的拥有很多真正的朋友。

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Being a rather vain man, he complained in "the Fairy Tale of My Life," one of three autobiographies he wrote, that people were not interested in his "serious" writing.

安徒生是个颇为自命不凡的人，在他所著的三本自传之一的《我童话般的人生》一书中，他抱怨人们对他“严肃”的作品不感兴趣。

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When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me -how do I make my way in the world, and how do I become successful and how do I get the things that I want.

我年轻的时候，我想到的生活就是关于我——我如何为自己在世界闯出一条路来，我如何取得成功，以及我如何获得我所要的东西。

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Did it work out that way because the women in my early life were so present and the man so much trouble?

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"For some reason I kept that one profile up and now I have a wonderful man in my life, " she said.

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Now I had never in my pitiful life knowingly exchanged pleasantries over lunch, or any other meal for that matter, with a man who was regularly trying to kill me.

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