Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

由于缺乏独到的学识,没有形成良好的思维习惯,对写作艺术一窍不通,我决定写一本书。

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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

我在音乐和作曲方面的训练使我进入了一种音乐语言的过程,例如,我演奏的单词的声音不得不违背它们的本意。

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

每一种艺术,其职责是提炼、净化、装饰、润色和优雅的生活,都是在缪斯女神的庇护下进行的,没有发现有什么神值得掌管它们。

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

我教给孩子们的一件事是,我一直在为自己投资,我从未停止学习,从未停止成长。

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

幻想,被理智抛弃,产生不可能的怪物;与之相结合,她是艺术之母,奇迹之源。

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

学习的目的是认识神,并从那知识中爱他,效法他。