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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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

在当代文明幸福的黑暗背景下,即使是艺术也趋向于交融,失去了自己的身份。

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。

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。