Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

他们说,没有什么比死亡更确定,也没有什么比死亡的时间更不确定。

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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

每个时代都试图形成自己对过去的概念。每一个时代都参照其所处时代的最高条件,重新书写过去的历史。

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

几乎所有的机构拥有的艺术品都比它们所能展示的多得多,其中很多都揭示了它的时效性、天才性或纯粹的怪异。