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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

有欲望的学习是真正的活动;没有欲望，它只是活动的表象和嘲弄。

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

许多男人被一个女人表面上的痛苦所深深打动;他们以痛苦的表情来寻找坚贞或爱的迹象。

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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻，它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

生活应该是一场渴望冒险的斗争，这种冒险的崇高品质会滋养灵魂。

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I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

我非常想学芭蕾，但实际上我只想穿芭蕾短裙。

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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

把这样沉闷的地方叫做天堂，简直是一种嘲弄。

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The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire.

我可能没有欲望的欲望本身就是欲望。

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Study men, not historians.

研究男性，而不是历史学家。

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