The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

  • -- Alain de Botton 阿兰·德波顿

我们在电影中哭泣的时刻,不是当事情变得悲伤,而是当事情变得比我们想象的更美好。

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

如果一个社会轻视优秀的管道工程,认为它是一项卑贱的活动,而容忍粗制滥造的哲学,因为它是一项崇高的活动,那么这个社会既没有好的管道工程,也没有好的哲学:它的管道和它的理论都站不住脚。

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

我们的生活是一个希望,它不断地把自己变成记忆,而记忆反过来又带来希望。