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The importance of an historical event lies not in what happened but in what later generations believe to have happened.
历史事件的重要性不在于发生了什么，而在于后人相信发生了什么。
— Gough Whitlam 高夫·惠特拉姆
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更多好句 ↗There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
只有一件事是真实的:立即画出你所看到的。当你拥有了它，你就拥有了它。当你没有，你重新开始。其余的都是骗人的。
Edouard Manet
爱德华·马内特
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
奇怪的是，当我们试图用语言来表达一件事时，我们却把它贬低了。
Maurice Maeterlinck
莫里斯·梅特林克
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
谬误有无限的组合，而真理只有一种存在方式。
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
让-雅克·卢梭
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
给我真理，而不是爱，不是金钱，不是名誉。
Henry David Thoreau
亨利·大卫·梭罗
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
任何事物都必须在理性的审判之前证明它的存在，否则就放弃存在。
Friedrich Engels
恩格斯
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
说谎者受到的惩罚不是因为没有人相信他，而是因为他不能相信任何人。
George Bernard Shaw
萧伯纳