I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

  • -- Khalil Gibran 纪伯伦

对于那些把闲聊想象成知识,把沉默想象成无知,把感情想象成艺术的人,我洗手不干了。

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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

我从小就想成为一名作家,尽管这似乎不太可能,因为我没有显示出真正的才华。但我坚持了下来,最终找到了自己的那排锄头。对其他作家作品的无知使我不会灰心丧气,我的阅读量也不如一般的公共汽车司机。

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

对一部小说的最后考验将是我们对它的喜爱,正如它是对我们的朋友以及任何我们无法定义的东西的考验。

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

意识到眼前快乐的虚假性,以及对缺乏快乐的虚荣心的无知,导致了无常。

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

不要谈论感情的浪费;感情从来没有浪费过。