Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

我们的激情就像一阵痉挛,虽然能让我们暂时变得更强,但过后却会变得更弱。

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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

我们不需要对与错的清单,不需要做与不做的表格:我们需要书籍、时间和沉默。你不会很快被遗忘,但从前是永恒的。

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

如果你有一个伟大的激情,似乎合乎逻辑的事情是看到它的果实,而果实是孩子。

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

如果你是激情的对象,那就跳出窗外。如果你感觉到了,就逃离它。激情一去不复返,无聊依旧。

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

在困难时期,环顾四周,很难找到值得感激的东西。