All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

  • -- Richard Le Gallienne 理查德·勒·加利恩

所有神话都不仅仅是幻想,而是随着时间的推移,由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。

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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

也许灾难是自然的人类环境,尽管我们花费了大量的精力试图摆脱它,但我们已经为在灾难中生存做好了准备。

My life in general and the thoughts it beholds are never dedicated to a certain road. Rather they flow with the wind, changing directions as the mountains steer them sideways.

总的来说,我的生活和它所包含的思想从来没有献身于某条道路。相反,它们随风而动,随着山脉的倾斜而改变方向。

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

金钱和时间是人生最沉重的负担,而……人类中最不快乐的人,是那些拥有这两样东西的人。

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

许多作家选择活跃在这个世界上,失去的不是美德,而是时间,失去了文学赖以生存的宁静。

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

我想成功的主要原因是走出贫民区。我的父母帮助我指明了道路。

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

人们似乎忘记了,他们现在思维方式不同的一个原因是弗洛伊德的遗产本身。

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

我宁愿坐在南瓜上独享一切,也不愿挤在天鹅绒垫子上。

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

我们在人类头脑中发现的第一种最简单的情感是好奇心。