The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

  • -- William Dean Howells 豪威尔斯

所有无生命的东西的死亡对我来说都是可怕的,但最可怕的是书的死亡。

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My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

我对死亡的感觉不像以前那么自私了。我过去对死亡的态度是漫不经心的;现在我从我儿子的角度来看。

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

男性的虚荣心是对女性的一种不断的侮辱,也是女性含蓄地声称自己具有超凡的敏感性和道德感的原因。

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

如果你做了可怕的事情,你必须忍受可怕的事情;因为这样,不公正的神圣之光就会闪耀。

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

没有什么比摩天大楼与覆盖它们的天空的战斗更富有诗意和可怕的了。