And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

  • -- George Washington Cable 乔治·华盛顿·凯布林

到了下午,他们进入了一片土地——但是这片土地!一片笼罩在哀悼之中的土地,被巨大的柏树遮蔽,淹没了;爬行动物的土地,寂静,阴影,腐朽。

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For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

因为我们已经习惯于尊重恐惧,而不是我们自己对语言和定义的需求。当我们在沉默中等待无畏的最后奢侈时,这种沉默的重量将会窒息我们。

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

生命是什么?一个疯狂。生命是什么?一个幻觉,一个影子,一个故事。最大的善是不够的;因为所有的生命都是一场梦,而梦本身只是梦。

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

我被一个角色吸引住了,然后你为之哀悼。我肯定会有一段哀悼的时间。

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

中年是无邪的青春,老年是无朽的老年。

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

生命-保存身体免于腐烂的精神腌黄瓜。

No man sees his shadow who faces the sun.

面朝太阳的人看不到自己的影子。

Silence is more eloquent than words.

沉默比言语更有说服力。