When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

当我拿着铲子走进花园,挖了一张床,我感到如此的兴奋和健康,我发现我一直在欺骗自己,让别人为我做我本应该用自己的双手做的事情。

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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

然后,在没有意识到的情况下,你试着在新的一天开始的时候提高自己;当然,你在这段时间里取得了很大的成就。任何人都可以做到这一点,这是免费的,当然是非常有益的。谁不知道,就必须从经验中学习和发现,平静的良心使人坚强。

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

当我写小说的时候,我面对的是双重生活。我活在现在的同时,我也活在过去,和我的角色在一起。正是这一点使一位小说家如此古怪,令人不快。

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

如果一个单身男人不屈不挠地依靠自己的直觉,并坚持下去,那么这个巨大的世界就会向他走来。

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

我想我会有一个更好的时间写电影而不是导演。