Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

离别会减少人的一些小欲望而增加重大的欲望,就像风吹灭蜡烛而煽旺篝火一样。

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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

在家具方面,我发现某种程度上不丑比丑更糟。

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

有时候,当一个人失踪的时候,整个世界似乎都失去了人烟。