Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

语言是一只裂开的水壶,我们在上面敲出曲调,让熊跟着跳舞,而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。

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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

巴黎的寄宿学校生活很苦,我没有很好地忍受。我一直在生病,或在任何情况下虚弱,在神经崩溃的边缘。

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

我们的语言是我们自己的反映。语言是说话人性格和成长的准确反映。

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

我正在努力寻找一种不那么容易被期望调节的语言。

Words are so strong and I am so timid my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint.

言语是如此的有力,我是如此的胆怯,我的灵魂忽视了警告,最终我被你的油漆覆盖。

To see change is at the same time to allow change.

看到改变的同时也允许改变。

God is the perfect poet.

上帝是完美的诗人。