If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

  • -- Mark Helprin 普林

如果莎士比亚认为喜剧是值得的,那就意味着我们其他人可以从悲剧中抽身而出,而不会背叛我们的使命,即使现代的专业知识分子,一个天生的装腔作势者,还没有发现这一点。

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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

人生和世界的悲剧不在于人们不认识上帝;可悲的是,认识了他,他们仍然坚持走自己的路。

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

所有这一切的悲剧是,它发生在我身上,它不应该发生。它毁了我的生活和事业。这就是悲剧。

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

我读莎士比亚和圣经,还会掷骰子。这就是我所说的博雅教育。

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

莎士比亚根本没有答案。