To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

  • -- Max Beerbohm 比尔博姆

说一个人是虚荣的,仅仅意味着他对自己给别人带来的影响感到满意。

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

公众接受或拒绝现代艺术中的任何东西,这种观念仅仅是浪漫主义小说。比赛结束了,奖杯在公众知道发生了什么之前就已经分发出去了。

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

真正的和平不仅仅是没有紧张,它是正义的存在。

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

你可以诱惑一个男人,不脱任何东西,甚至不碰他。

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

让我成为一个自由的人——自由地旅行,自由地休息,自由地工作。