Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  • -- William S. Burroughs 威廉·S·巴勒斯

没有什么是真的,一切都是允许的。

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

对全体民众来说,变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事,低声诉说隐藏的渴望,揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查,以免受到国家的惩罚。

We must sometimes permit ourselves to begin things badly, just so that we begin them. Those who spend too much time preparing graceful entrances often never get to make them.

我们有时必须允许自己把事情搞糟,这样我们才会把事情搞糟。那些花太多时间准备优雅登场的人往往永远也做不到。

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

虚假的友谊,像常春藤一样,会腐蚀和毁坏它所拥抱的高墙;但真正的友谊会给它所支持的对象带来新的生命和活力。