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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

事实上，牛津只是一个非常美丽的城市，在这里，人们可以很方便地隔离这个国家的一部分正在成长的年轻人。

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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

很难相信自己，因为自我的概念是一种人造的结构。事实上，你是宇宙辉煌统一的一部分。世界上一切美好的事物都在你的内心。

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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

我获得了马歇尔奖学金，在牛津大学攻读哲学，我最想做的是加强公共知识文化——我要写书和论文，帮助我们弄清自己想成为什么样的人。

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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

今晚这个城市到处都是停尸房，所有的厕所都满了。当我们从粪堆中走出来的时候，有购物中心从墙里冒出来。这就是我不介意的原因。

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New and beautiful things can grow in your life... But only if you give it room and let go of the past.

新的和美丽的事物会在你的生活中成长…但前提是你要给它空间，放下过去。

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Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

任何认为小城镇比大城市更友好的人都生活在大城市里。

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Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

牛津还教会了我一些别的东西——它教会了我怀疑。

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