Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  • -- Felix Mendelssohn 费利克斯·门德尔松

自从我开始写作,我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页,因为无论什么公众,或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式,按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。

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I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

我只是问自己,那个人为了下周的作业,把他灵魂的哪一部分咬掉吞下去了?你知道,仅仅是为了生活,仅仅是作为一个艺术家工作,或者养家糊口?

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

战争往往是非常公开的事情,它们是可见的。有记者随部队旅行,你每天都能收到新闻报道。

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

如果我们抹杀个人责任原则,欧洲模式将处于危险之中。

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

我在思想(和原则)上是激进的,在方法(和行为)上是保守的。

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

我对着镜子对自己说,难道你曾经演过罗密欧吗?

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

神话是公众的梦想,梦想是私人的梦想。