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

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

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。

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边,他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵,而我却没有和他争吵过。

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

无论你是男人还是女人,在这个世界上,没有勇气你将一事无成。它是仅次于荣誉的最伟大的精神品质。

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

在合理的范围内,我可以写我喜欢的东西,花多长时间做它是必要的。这是一种超越价格的奢侈。

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

当我们在利物浦和汉堡的舞厅里演奏时,我们达到了最好的状态。这个世界从未见过。

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

对任何人来说,像我一样全神贯注于任何事情都是一种可诅咒的罪恶。

A public is a necessary fiction.

公众是必要的虚构。