It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

  • -- Clifford D. Simak 西马克·克利福德

这是一个没有任何时空矩阵特征的地方。这是一个什么也没有发生的地方——一个完全空虚的地方。这里既没有光明也没有黑暗,只有空虚。

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I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

我并没有很快出名。这是一个缓慢的、渐进的过程,所以我能够慢慢地成长,弄清楚我是谁,我想要什么,而不是在聚光灯下告诉我我是谁。

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

只要一个人能忍受自己,他就能忍受很多。他可以没有希望,没有朋友,没有书,甚至没有音乐,只要他能倾听自己的想法。

greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

最大的伪装不是为了隐藏我们内心的邪恶和丑陋,而是我们的空虚。最难隐藏的是那些不存在的东西。

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

在我的生活中没有什么比做一个父亲更重要的了。我绝不会让我的职业选择或抱负威胁到这种关系。

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

对自己无所求,对别人有深切的同情,这才是真正的圣洁。

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

这个世界的荣誉,除了膨胀、空虚和坠落的危险,还有什么呢?