We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

  • -- Edward Hall 爱德华·霍尔

我们不应该诋毁任何其他文化,而应该帮助人们理解自己的文化和主导文化之间的关系。当你理解了另一种文化或语言,并不意味着你必须失去自己的文化。

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The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

在任何爱情故事中,第一次接吻的决定是最重要的。它改变了两个人的关系,甚至比最终的投降还要强烈;因为这个吻已经包含了投降。

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

我只是认为,除非你在家庭中有那种凝聚力,否则男性角色往往会变得非常强势、压抑和麻木不仁。这很大程度上也是由于缺乏教育。

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

艺术作为人类存在的最高反映,总是自发地满足着这种丰富性的要求。在任何文化中,没有一种成熟的艺术风格是简单的。

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

文化是让生存手段消失在生存目的背后的一种默契。文明是后者对前者的从属。

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together…

人际关系就像玻璃。有时候,让它们破碎总比试图伤害自己把它们重新组装起来要好。

I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

我想变得强大,有统治力。像张伯伦。