Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  • -- F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

生活本质上是一种欺骗,它的条件就是失败;救赎的不是幸福和快乐,而是来自斗争的更深层次的满足。

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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

尽管作为一名水手,我鄙视政治——因为我热爱我的水手生活,直到今天仍然热爱它——但环境迫使我对政治问题采取明确的态度。

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

我的仇恨总是比我的友谊更活跃地占据我的思想,并给我更大的精神上的满足。

The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.

唯一的满足是现实的满足,而现实本身就是令人沮丧的。

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

你所做的每件事的基本条件必须是选择、爱和激情。