The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  • -- Wendell Berry 温德尔·贝里

过去是我们的定义。我们有充分的理由去努力摆脱它,或者摆脱它的缺点,但是我们只有在它的基础上添加更好的东西,才能摆脱它。

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We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

我们必须努力鼓励东方和西方不仅相互靠拢,而且鼓励它们找到一种新的哲学,这种哲学将成为决定地球- -我们共同和唯一的庇护所- -未来的工具。

Escape literature, like most escape media, generally proves to be a greater bondage than that which has been escaped from.

逃避文学,就像大多数逃避媒体一样,通常被证明是比被逃避的更大的束缚。

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

与其想着你的下一个假期是什么时候,也许你应该开始一种你不需要逃避的生活。