Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

如果没有想象力,一个男人在女服务员的怀抱里会像在公爵夫人的怀抱里一样幸福。

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

今天,我开始明白爱是什么,如果它存在……当我们分开的时候,我们都感到缺少了另一半。我们不完整,就像一本丢了第一卷的两卷书。这就是我想象中的爱:不在时的不完整。

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

如果每个人都能偶尔强迫自己完全独处,这对世界是有好处的。世界上大部分的进步都来自这样的孤独。

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

我对黑人的唯一要求就是,白人应该把脚跟从他的脖子上挪开,让他有机会通过自己的努力站起来。

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

我们的思想、激情和由想象形成的思想,都不存在于头脑之外,这是每个人都允许的。