It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

  • -- Maya Lin 林璎

一个完全属于我的想法不再是我思想的一部分,而是完全公开,这让我感到恐惧。

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

头脑永远不会满足于眼前的事物,而是总是脱离当下,沉浸在未来幸福的计划中……人类心灵的自然飞行不是从快乐到快乐,而是从希望到希望。

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

自从我开始写作,我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页,因为无论什么公众,或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式,按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

在电影或歌曲中谈论灵魂伴侣的想法很美好,也很浪漫,但在现实中,我觉得它很可怕。

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

这位先生使我想起了一只老母鸡,它在蛋被取走后还坚持要下蛋。

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

向公众出售鲜花……他们可以挂在墙上而不感到紧张的东西。

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

英雄是知道如何再坚持一分钟的人。

Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

信任总是一个好主意。为别人。