A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

  • -- Charles Peguy 查尔斯·佩吉

一个词对一个作家来说和对另一个作家来说是不一样的。有人把它从肚子里扯出来。另一个人从大衣口袋里把它掏了出来。

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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

我们已经到了道路上的一个转折点。如果我们转向右边,也许我们的孩子和我们孩子的孩子会走那条路;但如果我们转向左边,未出生的后代将会诅咒我们的名字,因为我们对上帝和他的话不忠。

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

一心扑在文字财富上的人是自己感情的欺骗,而不是被那些自称炼金术士的著作或伪装所欺骗。

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

说到做到,殊途同归。所以重要的不是你走哪条路,而是你如何走。

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

如果你让条件阻止你工作,它们总会阻止你。

Seems like some things just aren't the same anymore.

似乎有些事情已经不一样了。

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

绘画和写作是独立的艺术。