The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

  • -- Richard Steele 斯蒂尔

愚人自怜,直到被奉承。

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A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

一件艺术品放在画廊里就失去了它的吸引力,变成了一个可移动的物体或与外界隔绝的表面。

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.

爱是一种存在的状态。你的爱不在外面;它在你的内心深处。你永远不会失去它,它也不会离开你。

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

我同情那些想要一件便宜到生产这种衣服的男男女女在生产过程中挨饿的人。

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

你知道,让几年过去,直到我的中年危机。然后可以用胶片记录下来。

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

文学想象是作家向爱书者提供的审美对象。

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

我不谈成功。我不知道那是什么。等我死了再说。

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

生活中最好的乐趣在于适度。

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

冰淇淋很精致——可惜它不违法。