I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  • -- Christopher James Hampton 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·汉普顿

我认为为竞争对手找个丈夫是有辱人格的。如果你失败了,那是耻辱;如果你成功了,那是平庸。

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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

企图破坏我们的激情是愚蠢至极的。狂热者像疯子一样折磨自己,什么都不想要,什么都不爱,什么都感觉不到,如果他成功了,最终会变成一个彻头彻尾的怪物,这是多么崇高的目标啊!

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

他想,在追求高雅的事情上失败,总比在处理完全卑贱的事情上成功要强。

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

我很情绪化;我想几年后我可能会发疯。

Stop worrying about what other people think.

不要担心别人怎么想。