A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

  • -- Axel Munthe 阿克塞尔·蒙德

只要一个人能忍受自己,他就能忍受很多。他可以没有希望,没有朋友,没有书,甚至没有音乐,只要他能倾听自己的想法。

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I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

当我嫁给琼并生了几个儿子后,我获得了人生中最重要的东西。在琼和男孩们之间做出选择,当一名作家,我毫不犹豫地放弃了写作。

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

我不退休。我毕业。今天是我的毕业日。退休意味着你可以安享现有的生活,整天在海滨冲浪。这是不可能发生的。

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

任何一份报纸,从第一行到最后一行,都只不过是一张恐怖的网,我无法理解一只无辜的手怎么能摸到一份报纸而不因厌恶而颤抖。

Be yourself. Live your dreams. Love your body. Be able to say no and mean it. And most importantly, believe in yourself.

做你自己。住你的梦想。爱你的身体。能够说“不”并认真对待。最重要的是,相信自己。

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

除了极端的恐惧和悲伤,没有一种感觉不能从音乐中得到慰藉。

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

我现在不知道我是否有趣。我只是不停地说,希望我能找到一些有趣的东西。

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

音乐是声音的算术,正如光学是光的几何。

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

上帝可以给绝对无望的处境注入希望。