One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

  • -- Thomas Mann 托马斯·曼

一个人总是认为一个愚蠢的人是完全健康而平凡的,认为一个人的疾病是使他变得文雅、聪明而不寻常的。

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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

神经质的人会抱怨他们的疾病,但他们会充分利用这一点,当谈论到远离他们时,他们会像母狮保护幼崽一样保护它。

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

Art is a kind of illness.

艺术是一种疾病。