Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

  • -- William S. Burroughs 威廉·S·巴勒斯

沉默只会让那些强迫性说话的人感到恐惧。

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I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

我认为一个重要的进步是我们不再强迫自己去争论,或者在理性的层面上为事情辩护。我们更愿意承认某些事情完全是本能的,而另一些则是真正的智慧。

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

世俗的面孔从来没有在葬礼上显得那么世俗。它们具有刺耳的不协调的效果,就像一个粗哑的声音打破了夜晚的肃穆寂静。

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

最深的感情总是在沉默中表现出来;不是沉默,而是克制。