There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  • -- Nagarjuna 龙树

伤口被刮伤是一种乐趣,但没有伤口更令人愉快。就是这样,在世俗的欲望中也有快乐,但是没有欲望更令人愉快。

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One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.

和朋友呆在一起的乐趣之一就是你可以浏览他们的书架。我总是带着一本书来,但我几乎从未读过它。这就像坐在餐桌前打开一包三明治。

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

我认为不同的快乐适用于不同的读者——我的一个朋友不会读任何不引人入胜的书。我不太在意情节,但我喜欢幽默和奇怪。

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

愤怒是我们思想的屈服,而不是欲望的屈服。

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

渴望超越理智的知识分子。