To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

对于一个寻欢作乐的人来说,他的每一分每一秒似乎都在虚度,因为他并不享受其中的快乐。

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

神秘主义者用一生的困惑换来片刻的兴奋;这种困惑具有传染性和破坏性。试图用其他东西来解释任何事物,用心理学来解释诗歌,是令人困惑和具有破坏性的。

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

重要的问题不是,什么能使人获得一些分散的快乐,而是什么能使他的生活总体上幸福。

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

我们都有义务每五年在董事会上露面,为我们的存在辩护……否则将被清算。

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

你不能靠娱乐生活。它是水面上的泡沫——有一英寸深,然后是泥浆。

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

在我看来,生命太短暂了,不能把时间花在抚育仇恨或记录错误上。

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

神……他的唯一定义就是他超出了人类的想象能力。

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

婚姻不是娱乐,而是一种庄严的行为,通常是一种悲哀的行为。

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

每一根金线都是宝贵的,每一刻都是宝贵的。

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

我喜欢有活力的电影。

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness.

没有什么比意识过度更能破坏闲散的快乐了。

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

每个人都有权在星期六晚上洗澡。