The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

  • -- Italo Calvino 伊塔罗·卡尔维诺

人类是一个由生物组成的区域,应该通过追踪其边界来界定。

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Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

那是同一颗星星,那是同一颗月亮,它们俯视着你的兄弟姐妹,它们仰视着你的兄弟姐妹,尽管它们彼此离我们如此遥远。

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

作为一个父亲,嗯,我不知道这是不是一个改变,但它让我想更快地离开这里。别闹了。因为孩子是我活着的理由,是我来工作的理由。

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

如果我在我的客厅里做一件作品,如果我练习它——我有磁带来证明这一点——它不会比在观众面前做同样的作品好。

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

当我们谈到大教堂的石头时,我们并没有提到它的本质。当我们试图用人的品质来定义一个人的时候,我们并没有说他的本质。

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

在过去的十年里,我几乎走遍了那里的每一个战区。

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

当你骑马的时候,只有你所参加的比赛才是重要的。

The human race is governed by its imagination.

人类受想象力的支配。