We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

我们用望远镜看过去,用显微镜看现在。因此,目前的情况显然是极其恶劣的。

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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

甚至在散文中也有诗歌,在所有伟大的散文中,不仅仅是功利主义的或说教的,也有诗人用散文写作,或至少用或多或少明显的散文;数以百万计的诗人写的诗与诗歌无关。

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

除非我有能力也愿意在每次写歌的时候重新打开伤口,否则如果我选择不审视自己的内心来写歌,我真的不值得被称为艺术家。

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

我想如果我不是那么神经质的话,我可能已经是某种法医分析师了。我不能用显微镜做任何事,因为我开始思考我们周围的细菌世界。

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

为了确认我的身份,我没有像大多数路德教男孩那样,得到一块手表和我的第一条长裤。我有一个望远镜。我妈妈认为这是最好的礼物。

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

成年期是童年和老年之间不断缩小的时期。现代工业社会的明显目标是把这段时期减少到最低限度。

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

说一个男人不能一直爱一个女人,就像说一个小提琴手需要几把小提琴才能演奏同一首曲子一样,都是荒谬的。