The more one has, the less one desires.

  • -- Sherwood Smith 舍伍德·史密斯

一个人拥有的越多,他的欲望就越少。

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I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

我认为在我们这个时代,我们得到的很多信息都是预极化的。小说有一种方式提醒我们,我们实际上在情感、神经、欲望和恐惧方面是非常相似的,所以我认为这是一种很好的方式来消除这种两极分化。

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

伤口被刮伤是一种乐趣,但没有伤口更令人愉快。就是这样,在世俗的欲望中也有快乐,但是没有欲望更令人愉快。