To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

无所事事需要强烈的个人认同感。

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I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.

我把自己的声音和能力看作是上天赐予我的礼物。我觉得我甚至不能为此邀功,但它在我的生活中如此重要。这就是我的生活。这是我的身份,这是一切。它给了我很大的快乐和使命感——我无法想象没有它的生活。

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

正如我们必须解释每一个无聊的话一样,我们也必须解释每一个无聊的沉默。

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

也许如果我表现得足够好,我自己也会相信的。

An idle man is the devil's pillow.

懒汉是魔鬼的枕头。