The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

旅行的作用是用现实来调节想象,而不是思考事情可能是怎样的,而是看到事情本来的样子。

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

今天,我开始明白爱是什么,如果它存在……当我们分开的时候,我们都感到缺少了另一半。我们不完整,就像一本丢了第一卷的两卷书。这就是我想象中的爱:不在时的不完整。

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

想象的作品应该用通俗易懂的语言来写;它们越纯粹是想象出来的,就越需要简单明了。

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

意义和现实并不是隐藏在事物背后的某个地方,而是隐藏在事物之中,存在于所有事物之中。

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

我不会假装现实对每个人都是一样的。