My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  • -- Augustine of Hippo 河马的奥古斯丁

我的心把它的思想从经验中抽离出来,把它自己从那一大堆互相矛盾的感官形象中抽离出来,以便找出那沐浴在其中的光明是什么……这样,只要匆匆一瞥,它就达到了存在的视觉。

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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

一个人的性格越有天赋、越健谈,他们在语气或思想色彩上与作者相似的可能性就越大。

He was like a song i'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

他就像一首我曾经听过的支离破碎的歌,但从那以后一直在我的脑海里歌唱。

You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts.

你能想什么就想什么,但不要把你所有的想法都公之于众。

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

你思想的手指不停地塑造着你的脸。