Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

成熟往往比青春更荒唐,而且往往对青春最不公平。

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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

我认为,也许最重要的问题是,我们正试图通过一种语言来理解宇宙的基本运作方式,这种语言是用来告诉彼此最好的水果是什么时候的。

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

我曾经看到过这样的一天:如果一个人让自己变得可笑,全世界都会嘲笑他。可是现在,凡是卑鄙、恶心、荒唐的东西,他们都喜欢,但那就更好了!

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

毕竟,一个谦逊的女人一生中,大部分时间都在否认那些至少在每年的某一天显而易见的事实。

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

我们所谓的开始往往是结束。结束就是开始。我们从终点开始。

Temptation rushes in to fill the vacuum of meaninglessness. We must fight temptation with meaning.

诱惑冲进来填补无意义的真空。我们必须用意义战胜诱惑。

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

我是一个国家安全自由主义者,我告诉人们这些,因为这听起来很荒谬。

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

新思想常常被研究和分析,直到它们被扼杀。

Give her bells and let her fly.

给她铃铛,让她自由飞翔。