No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

没有一种邪恶会绝望地毁灭我们,除非我们热爱邪恶,并且渴望继续下去,不做任何努力去摆脱它。

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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

令人好奇的是,从远古时代起,人类似乎就把邪恶与美联系在一起,却带着一种幽灵般的恐惧而退缩,同时又被其催眠般的吸引力所吸引。

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

在这个似乎执意要把最邪恶的丑陋变成最邪恶的丑陋的世界上,留下美的标志是非常必要的。

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

我渴望变得聪明,但几乎从来没有。我想我当时相当绝望。

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

我从不放弃希望的原因是因为一切基本上都是无望的。