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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  • -- Siri Hustvedt 希莉·哈斯特维特

我们的记忆片段在被想象成文字之前没有任何连贯性。时间是语言、语法和时态的属性。

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Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet...they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

当然，妻子和孩子是人类的一种纪律;而单身男人，虽然他们要比单身男人宽宏大量得多，因为他们的收入更少，但是……他们更残忍，心肠更硬(善于进行严厉的审讯)，因为他们的柔情不常被需要。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。

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You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

你不能停止时间。你不能捕捉光。你只能仰起你的脸，任它滴落。

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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

沉默是上帝的语言，其他一切都是拙劣的翻译。

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