Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

评论家通常都是诗人,历史学家,传记作家,如果可能的话。他们在一件事或另一件事上试过他们的才能,但都失败了;因此他们变成了批评家。

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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

人们走的路越远越好,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,犯的错误也越多。然后,历史学家们对这个混乱的非线性过程进行总结,使它看起来像一条简单的直线。

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

人们说爱是盲目的,因为他们不知道爱是什么。我告诉你们,只有爱才有眼睛。除了爱,一切都是盲目的。

Relationships end too soon because people stop putting the same effort to keep you as they did to win you.

关系结束得太快,因为人们不再像当初为了赢得你而付出同样的努力来挽留你。

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

历史重演。历史学家彼此重复。