The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻,它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

因为生命的意义因人而异,因日而异,因时而异。因此,重要的不是生活的一般意义,而是一个人在某一特定时刻的生活的具体意义。

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

我们享受的快乐时刻会给我们带来惊喜。不是我们抓住了他们,而是他们抓住了我们。

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

有欲望的学习是真正的活动;没有欲望,它只是活动的表象和嘲弄。

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

这是一个长期偏头痛发作的灵魂。

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

永远的乐观是力量的倍增器。