The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  • -- Walter Elliot 沃尔特·艾略特

沙漠有它的沉默的神圣,人群有它的谈话的神圣。

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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

对于诗人来说,沉默是一种可以接受的回应,甚至是一种奉承。

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

没有真理的叛逆就像荒凉干旱沙漠中的春天。

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

交谈是一种不假思索的艺术。

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

辩论是男性化的,交谈是女性化的。

The answer to a fool is silence.

对傻瓜的回答是沉默。