介绍:
英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）是意识流文学代表人物，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋。她患有严重的抑郁症，多次精神崩溃。
1941年3月28日，预感另一次精神崩溃即将开始，伍尔夫担心自己永远不会再好转，在留下两封分别给丈夫和姐姐温妮莎的短信后，她用石头填满口袋，投入了她家附近的欧塞河（River Ouse）。这封信就是伍尔夫在自杀前夜写给她丈夫绝笔信。
Dearest,
亲爱的：
I feel certain that I am going mad again.
我确信我又要发狂了。
I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.
我觉得我们无法再一次经受那种可怕的时刻。
And I shan't recover this time.
而且这一次我也不会再痊愈。
I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate.
我开始听见种种幻声，我的心神无法集中。
So I am doing what seems the best thing to do.
因此我打算采取那种看来算是最恰当的行动。
You have given me the greatest possible happiness.
你已给予我最大可能的幸福。
You have been in every way all that anyone could be.
你在每一个方面都做到了任何人所能做到的一切。
I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came.
我相信，在这可怕的疾病来临之前，没有哪两个人能像我们这样幸福。
I can't fight any longer.
我无力再坚持下去了。
I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work.
我知道我是在糟蹋你的生命；没有我，你才能工作。
And you will I know.
我知道，事情就是如此。
You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read.
你看，我连这张字条都写不好。我也看不了书了。
What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you.
我要说的是：我生活中的全部幸福都归功于你。
You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good.
你对我一直十分耐心，你一直都难以置信地善良。
I want to say that—everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
这一点，我要说——人人也都知道。假如还有任何人能挽救我，那也只有你了。
Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.
现在，一切都离我而去，唯一确定的就是你的善良。
I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
我不能再继续糟蹋你的生命。
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
我相信再没有哪两个人像我们曾经那样幸福。
V.
弗
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