The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

  • -- Isaiah Berlin 以赛亚·伯林

对确保我们的价值观念在某些客观的天堂是永恒和安全的渴望,也许只是对童年的确定性或我们原始过去的绝对价值观念的渴望。

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All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing.

所有的作家都上天堂;我们选择了地狱般的写作生涯,这是我们在地球上付出的代价。

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

不要做任何你没有勇气祈求上天赐福的事情。

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

没有什么比对记忆的渴望更消耗精力,更不合逻辑。

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

忠于自己的欲望是灵魂的责任。