After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

在你耗尽了商业、政治、社交等领域的一切之后——发现这些东西都不能让你最终满意,也不能永久磨损——还剩下什么?大自然仍然存在。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

我上周才知道——我姐姐告诉我——我父亲有一些披头士的唱片。所以我一定听过他们很多次,但从来没有注意到,真的。现在我用新的耳朵倾听他们。

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

我已经尽我所能地分析了……我没有发现任何可以指控的过错,因此辞职是不可接受的。

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

有创意很有趣,也很令人满意。