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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

在乡村，夜晚的黑暗是友好而熟悉的，但在城市里，灯火通明，是不自然的，充满敌意和威胁的。它就像一只巨大的秃鹰在空中盘旋，等待时机。

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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

所有的图画都是不自然的。所有的照片都很悲伤，因为它们是关于死人的。你不会在一个特殊的时间或特定的事件中想到绘画。拍照片的时候，我总觉得自己在看一些死去的东西。

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Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

也许我们都是未来的移民。地图上的国界线是人造的，对我们来说就像对飞过头顶的鸟儿一样不自然。我们的第一个冲动是忽略它们。

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

现实政治的全部目的是通过无穷无尽的妖怪(全都是虚构的)威胁民众，让他们保持警惕(因此，他们大声疾呼，希望被带到安全的地方)。

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Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

有时我看到它，然后画它。其他时候我画它，然后看到它。两者都是不纯的情况，我都不喜欢。

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

爱情就像病毒。任何人在任何时候都可能发生这种事。

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