Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

真理比爱情的做作更美。你的善良一定有其可取之处,否则就毫无可取之处。

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The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

这个声音会指引你,告诉你该怎么做。为了做到这一点,你必须对乐器非常敏感,并且用你的声音接受这种日常对话。

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

我有一次坠机,我爱上了和我一起坠机的那个人。我一定是得了创伤后应激综合症。

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

世界似乎被分为好人和坏人。好人睡得更好,而坏人似乎更喜欢醒着的时候。

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

找到那些从读书中获得巨大乐趣的人是一种越来越不寻常的经历,所以作家们非常想被倾听。

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

当一个人不愿意承认他自己不愿意相信的事情时,装模作样是一个很好的词。

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

对于好的建议,唯一能做的就是把它传递下去。它对自己从来没有任何用处。

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

在我看来,衣着上的任何矫揉造作都暗示着理解力上的缺陷。

I'm trying to make myself invisible. that's an odd thing to attempt.

我想让自己隐形。这种尝试很奇怪。