Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

  • -- Thomas Arnold 汤玛斯·阿诺德

我宁愿让他认为太阳绕着地球转,星星在明亮的蓝色天空中闪烁着那么多的光芒,也不愿让他把这件事放在心上。

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I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

我想我能感觉到,但你不认为你是,因为在某个时候,你没有年龄,但你不认为你是什么。你感受着你的生活。我觉得。这是漫长的五十年。

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

就好像一个家庭的所有成员都同时出现,而不是他的父母。不仅是当前的权威,而且是限定了其他情况的常驻内存。

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

当一些非常极端的事情发生时,你必须找到一种方法去接受它,并将它包含在你对角色的看法中。有时这并不容易。

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

我们不能选择出生的日子,也不能选择死亡的日子,但选择是心灵至高无上的能力。

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

如何达到清晰?主要是通过找麻烦和写作来为人们服务,而不是给他们留下深刻印象。

One of our most fatal errors is assuming that our principles will insure their own observance.

我们最致命的错误之一是假定我们的原则将确保它们自己得到遵守。

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

唯一不阻碍进步的原则是:万事皆有可能。

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

五个惊叹号,肯定是疯了。