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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

事实上，我们只能爱我们自己知道的。我们知道的不多。在公共事务中，在文明的重建中，需要一种不那么引人注目和情绪化的东西，即容忍。

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

人们有时告诉我，比起文明，他们更喜欢野蛮。我怀疑他们是否进行了足够长的试验。就像亚历山大的人们一样，他们对文明感到厌倦;但所有的证据都表明，野蛮行为的无聊程度要大得多。

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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

文明的存在，就是为了没有群众，只有足够警觉的人，永远不会构成群众。

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Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

每个人都在不断地被摧毁和重建自己，有些人比其他人更彻底。

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