Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

许多人以为他是在买快乐,其实他是在把自己卖给快乐。

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The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

这个世界每天都侵入我的大脑。因为我的脑子里满是各种各样的东西,我似乎无法将它们拒之门外,所以我的工作中也必须有这些东西。

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

建筑美学必须根植于对人类活动的更广泛的理解,比如散步、放松和交流。体系结构考虑如何为这些活动提供附加价值。

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

这个声音会指引你,告诉你该怎么做。为了做到这一点,你必须对乐器非常敏感,并且用你的声音接受这种日常对话。

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运,不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

当前秩序之友全面谴责一切政治投机。

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

我脾气暴躁吗?我可能会。但我想,也许有时它被误解了。

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

我有时想知道是否所有的快乐都不是快乐的替代品。

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment pain of love lasts, a lifetime.

爱情带来的快乐只能持续片刻,而爱情带来的痛苦却能持续一生。