For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

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If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

如果我找不到一个我真正感兴趣的项目,我就回我一直在学习艺术史和法语的大学去。我还要学习英语和哲学——整个课程!

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

年轻妇女、少女更容易受到感染,有时感染率是男孩的六倍。这充分说明了女性的脆弱。

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

雄辩不能很好地代替行动,我们只相信雄辩。如果我们真的想成为一个伟大的国家,我们不能光说不练;我们必须行动起来。

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

我们的所见所闻和其他方面的经历很大程度上和我们一样,因为我们社区的语言习惯倾向于做出某些解释的选择。

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One  has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.

有些事情,只有经过深思熟虑,朝着相反的方向发展,才能实现。一个人必须出国才能找到他失去的家。

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

乐观的人看到到处都是绿灯,而悲观的人只看到红灯。真正聪明的人是色盲。

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

我不相信悲观主义。如果某件事没有以你想要的方式出现,勇往直前。如果你认为会下雨,就会下雨。

Discovering your own love language helps you understand why you feel more loved and appreciated by certain people than you do.

发现你自己的爱的语言可以帮助你理解为什么你觉得自己比别人更被爱和欣赏。

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

要意识到,如果你有时间抱怨某事,那么你就有时间去做一些事情。

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的,是修辞,而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的,是诗歌。

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

因为无论我们失去什么(像你或我),我们总是在海里找到我们自己。

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

人们害怕死。我正好相反。