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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

  • -- Joyce Cary 乔伊斯·卡里

无论善恶，人是一种自由的创造精神。这就产生了我们所生活的奇怪世界，一个不断创造的世界，一个不断变化和不安全的世界。

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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

我是自由的，因为我知道只有我一个人对我所做的每件事负有道德责任。我是自由的，不管我周围有什么规则。如果我觉得可以忍受，我就忍受;如果我发现它们太令人讨厌，我会打破它们。我是自由的，因为我知道只有我一个人对我所做的每件事负有道德责任。

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

神愿意阻止邪恶，却不能吗? 那么他不是全能的。 他能，但不愿意吗? 那么他是恶毒的。 他既能干又愿意吗? 那么邪恶从何而来? 他既不能也不愿意吗? 那为什么叫他上帝?

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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

正是在这样的一个晚上，人们感到真、善和美是一体的。早晨，当他们把他们的发现写在纸上，当其他人读到写在纸上的东西时，这看起来完全是荒谬的。

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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

人的心是偶像崇拜和迷信的仓库;甚至如果一个人相信他自己的思想，他一定会抛弃上帝，在自己的头脑中铸造一些偶像。

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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

创造力往往只包括发现已经存在的东西。你知道右脚和左脚的鞋子在一个多世纪前才出现吗?

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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

我的父亲，他的精神一直与我同在，我相信那个世界，那个充满梦想的世界。

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

我们这些官方把言论自由看得比生活本身更重要的人，似乎除了天气之外没有什么可谈的。

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

人类的善意就像阿基米德的杠杆，有了给定的支点，就能推动世界。

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

对于好的建议，唯一能做的就是把它传递下去。它对自己从来没有任何用处。

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

坏习惯一旦养成，要想改掉就难了。

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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

创造性的东西必须卖出去才能得到认可。

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When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.

当你别无选择时，调动勇气。

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