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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

在潜到快乐的水底时，我们带上来的沙砾比珍珠还多。

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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

只有学识渊博或有才能的人，才会容忍杂乱无章和缺乏条理。这些人往往吃得太饱，说不出话来。

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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

生活本来就不容易。处于高位或低位是很难接受的。我想我是宿命论者。我认为，你必须有历史感，才能在这些事情中生存下来……生活是一个接一个的危机。

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What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

所谓高生活水平，在相当大的程度上是由避免肌肉能量、增加感官享受和增加热量摄入的安排所构成的，而这些都超出了任何可以想象的营养需求。

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At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

桶初桶末，你要取满了，要留到桶中。因为在底层，储蓄来得太晚了。

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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

清教徒憎恨熊的引诱，不是因为它给熊带来痛苦，而是因为它给观众带来快乐。

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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

即使是珍珠在他洁白的牙齿面前也是黑的。

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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

潜水是信仰加上重力的飞跃。

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