If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  • -- Edmund Wilson 埃德蒙威尔逊

但愿我能记起,日子不是一排一排的砖砌成的,不是一幢坚固的房子,在那里人们可以安居乐乐,而只是心灵之火的食物。

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

这是一种奇特的感觉,一种双重意识,一种总是通过别人的眼睛来审视自己的感觉,一种用一根带子来衡量自己的灵魂的感觉,而这个带子上的世界却以一种嘲弄的轻蔑和怜悯的眼光看着我们。

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start

对我来说,从头开始是绝对必要的。除了一开始,我想不出还能有什么贡献

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

我们都想要的是公共安全。我们不希望修辞被意识形态所框定。

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

我们相信我们是安全的。这是一个很大的幻想。