Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  • -- Emily Carr 艾米丽·卡尔

二十不能期望六十能容忍所有的事情,六十对二十的永恒的爱情感到厌烦。

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

一个舒适的晚年是一个度过美好青春的奖赏。它不会给我们带来衰败的凄凉前景,而会给我们带来在更美好的世界里永葆青春的希望。

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

生活是一件极其寂寞的事。你一个人来到这个世界,又一个人离开这个世界,但在我看来,你活着的时候比来来往往还要孤独。

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

现代性是短暂的,稍纵即逝的,偶然的;它是艺术的一半,另一半是永恒的、不可改变的。

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

一个人的死与其说是他自己的事,不如说是幸存者的事。