The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  • -- Dale Carnegie 戴尔·卡内基

所有艺术的本质都是在给予快乐中获得快乐。

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We must be aware of the dangers, which lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

我们必须意识到存在于我们最慷慨的愿望中的危险。我们天性中的一些矛盾导致我们,一旦我们把我们的同胞作为我们启蒙兴趣的对象,就会继续把他们作为我们怜悯的对象,然后是智慧的对象,最终是强迫的对象。

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

有一个奇妙的神话般的自然法则,我们在生活中最渴望的三样东西——幸福、自由和内心的平静——总是通过给予别人而得到的。

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

一个人必须热爱人性,才能触及到每个人独特的本质:没有人可以太低或太丑。

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

晚上走进我的工作室,尤其是在大家都睡着的晚上,对我来说是一种完全的快乐。

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

创造性的本质在于它的新颖性,因此我们没有判断它的标准。

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

痛苦之后的快乐是多么美好啊!