Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

耶稣哭了。伏尔泰笑了。从那神圣的眼泪和人类的微笑中,产生了现代文明的优雅。

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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

哦,你们这些柔弱而美丽的人,他们如此优雅地放弃了。你所需要的是一个人来抓住你——温柔地,带着爱,把你的生活还给你。

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

艺术不是过去的财富,也不是外来的舶来品,而是所有活着的、创造着的人们现在生活的一部分。

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

我意识到过去和未来都是真实的幻想,它们存在于现在,这就是现在和所有的一切。

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

文明的存在,就是为了没有群众,只有足够警觉的人,永远不会构成群众。

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

你知不知道,你的晚年也会以同样的优雅、力量和魅力降临?

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

恩典必须在生活中得到表达,否则就不是恩典。

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

只有当一个文明的神被毁灭时,这个文明才会被毁灭。

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

你创造我,不是出于需要,乃是出于恩典。