If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

  • -- Erich von Stroheim 艾瑞克冯史特洛卓

如果我说到维也纳,那一定是过去时,就像一个男人说到他爱过的一个女人,她已经死了。

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

当一个人对他说话的人不理解,他自己也不理解时,这就是形而上学。

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

因为我的维也纳不同于他们现在所说的维也纳,正如活人不同于死人一样。

What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.

心怎么想,舌就怎么说。