Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

真理比小说更奇怪,但这是因为小说必须坚持可能性;事实并非如此。

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

只有一个人的基本思想中才有真理和生命。因为这是他真正完全理解的。读别人的思想,就像吃别人吃剩的饭,就像穿陌生人丢弃的衣服。

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

死亡最像一个先知,他在自己的土地上没有荣誉,或者一个诗人,他在自己的人民中是一个陌生人。

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

这些事情有些是真的,有些是谎言。但它们都是好故事。

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

当人们准备好了书的时候,他们往往会去找。