The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

人的灵魂对理想的需要比现实的需要更大。我们是通过真实存在的;我们生活在理想之中。

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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

一个地方——一个房间、一座建筑或一座城镇——的生活模式越多,它作为一个整体就越有生命力,它发出的光芒越多,它就越有自我维持的火焰,这是一种没有名字的品质。

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

我一直很喜欢戏剧。它使我着迷。你可以创造一个现实,让人们参与其中。它是实时发生的。

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

这就是艺术的价值和区别:比现实更真实,不是自然而是自然的本质。

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

烦恼是生活的公分母。这是一个伟大的均衡器。