When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  • -- Muriel Spark 穆丽尔·斯帕克

当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年,它所揭示的并不是衰微,而是不朽的最初日子。

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I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

我不相信个人的不朽,我认为道德是人类独有的,没有任何超人权威的支持。

A rock reveals itself to be sacred because its very existence is a hierophany: incompressible, invulnerable, it is that which man is not.

岩石显示出它自己是神圣的,因为它的存在本身就是一个导师:不可压缩的,坚不可摧的,这是人所不具备的。

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

在我所有的作品中,我都喜欢传达这样一个事实:我喜欢厨师,这是一种高尚的劳动,而且很辛苦。

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

有时候,一个高尚的失败和一个杰出的成功一样忠实地服务于这个世界。

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

如果你不准备犯错,你永远也不会想出任何原创的东西。

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

当我面试别人的时候,我不会问事先准备好的问题。

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

孩子是我们唯一可以肯定的永生形式。