Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

为什么我们的记忆力好到可以记住发生在我们身上的最小的琐事,却不能回忆起我们对同一个人说过多少次?

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

总而言之或总而言之,可能性总是相同的,它们不断地重复着,直到一个不把现实看得比思想更重要的人出现为止。他首先赋予新的可能性以意义和方向,然后唤醒它们。

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

为什么我们记得发生在我们身上的最微不足道的小事,却不记得我们有多少次向同一个人讲述过这些事情?

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

朋友之间品味或意见的差异与他们的琐事成正比,令人生厌。

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

这是我的剧院。在这里我可以一边唱歌,一边表演戏剧,一边做仰卧起坐。