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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Dark is not opposite of light. It is just the absence of light. Similarly, a problem is the absence of an idea. Not absence of a solution.

黑暗不是光明的对立面。只是没有光。同样,问题是缺乏一个想法。不是没有解决方案。

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

缺乏意义的经历越深——换句话说,荒谬的经历越深——人们就越积极地寻求意义。