The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

  • -- Tom Wolfe 汤姆·沃尔夫

治疗虚荣心最可靠的方法是孤独。

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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

孤独之所以成为一种痛苦,不是因为没有人分担我的负担,而是因为我只有自己的负担。

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

没有什么比在别人身上表现出更大的虚荣心更能抚慰我们的虚荣心了;事实上,它使我们对自己的谦虚感到骄傲。

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

孤独是并且一直是每个人的核心和不可避免的经历。

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

虚荣死很难;在某些顽固的情况下,它比人活得长。