Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

  • -- George Henry Lewes 乔治·亨利·路易斯

普通人生活在奇迹之中,不会感到惊奇,对事物越来越熟悉,却对它们一无所知。

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

人的本性就是如此,无论他们如何承认别人比自己更机智、更雄辩或更有学问;然而,他们几乎不会相信有许多人像他们一样聪明。

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

要说出确切的事实是非常困难的,即使是关于你自己的即时感受——要比说出关于它们的一些并非确切事实的好话要困难得多。

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.

我认为你可以做一个完全虚拟的中心,尽管我有一个普遍的感觉,也许因为我已经很老了,你仍然需要面对面的交流。

Some men still haven’t come home from this war. And some men never will.

有些人还没有从这场战争中归来。有些人永远不会。

I'm just an ordinary person.

我只是一个普通人。