The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

  • -- Susan Sontag 苏珊·桑塔格

人的成长就是他的各种可能性被耗尽的历史。

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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

戏剧的作用是锻炼,也可能是耗尽人类的情感。喜剧的目的是把这些情感逗乐成轻松的表现;的悲剧,给他们带来了伤痛和宽慰的泪水。厌恶和恐惧是罗盘的另两个指针。

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

很少有人能触及到表面,更不用说对自己经历的沉思了。