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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

  • -- Tom Stoppard 汤姆·斯托帕德

人们追求美，是为了使它受到玷污;不是为了它自己，而是为了肯定要亵渎它而带来的快乐。

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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

这些诗打好之前不要太苛刻。我总是认为打字稿提供了某种确定性:至少，如果事情是坏的，那么它们似乎是坏的信念。

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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

有那么一瞬间，她直直地盯着那双柔和的蓝眼睛，带着一种哺乳动物本能的肯定，她知道那些极其富有的人已经不再是人类了。

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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

他愿意将别人的灵魂带到天堂;愿他的灵魂升天。

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A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

一个有信念的人往往比一个有经验的人更令人向往。

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