The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

  • -- Ashley Montagu 蒙塔古

人类所遭受的最深刻的失败是由一个人能够成为什么和他实际上已经成为什么之间的差异造成的。

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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

印第安人用鹿皮做的衣服,背上湿了一百遍,又干又软;他的住处在大雨中,甚至在严冬,也被拆毁了,和当初建的时候一样柔软,一样干净。

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

当你几乎没有说过一句话,却突然有了一个孩子,你该如何建立一种关系呢?你如何爱一个两年没见面的女儿?她什么时候成为你的女儿?她是怎么变成你女儿的?

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

艺术作为人类存在的最高反映,总是自发地满足着这种丰富性的要求。在任何文化中,没有一种成熟的艺术风格是简单的。

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

现代艺术史也是一部艺术受众逐步流失的历史。艺术越来越受到艺术家的关注和公众的困惑。

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

当我谈到生命的目的时,我不仅想到了人类的生命,而且想到了地球上所有的生命以及宇宙中其他行星上必须存在的生命。

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

做一些有意义的事情——因为,上帝,有很多事情会让你生气。