We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

我们不能选择出生的日子,也不能选择死亡的日子,但选择是心灵至高无上的能力。

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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

正如诗人所预料的那样,警钟现在敲响了,因为——必须再说一遍——诗人的诞生总是对现存的文化秩序构成威胁,因为他试图突破文学阶层的圈子,到达中心。

I understand if you choose to leave. If it means you get to live, I'd let you go. But you need to know, I won't ever regret a moment we've spent together.

如果你选择离开,我能理解。如果这意味着你能活下去,我会让你走。但你要知道,我永远不会后悔我们一起度过的每一刻。

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

这本书是一部发生在读者心中的电影。这就是为什么我们去看电影时说,哦,书更好看。

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

我们不能选择自己的命运框架。但是我们投入进去的是我们自己的。

Don't be afraid to say what you feel. The mind is powerful but uses words as fuel.

不要害怕说出你的感受。思想是强大的,但它把语言当作燃料。

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

经过的一切。万物都经历着生与死的轮回。