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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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

因此，现实理性的唯一对象是善与恶。因为前者是根据理性原则所必然要求的对象;后者必然被回避，这也是基于理性原则。

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As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

作为一个不吃、不喝、不抽烟的客人，你有很多不足之处，但作为一个作家，你是我的女孩。

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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

要确信地相信，我们必须从怀疑开始。

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