But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

但是理智和感情相比,总是显得微不足道;一个本质上是受限的,就像所有正的东西一样,而另一个是无限的。

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It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

有趣的是,从一开始,我们并没有因为合作而变得更加紧密和受限制,奇怪的是,我们实际上对自己能够处理这个问题更有信心。

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

我认为,人的不幸来自于他的伟大;因为在他里面有一种无限,他虽然很狡猾,却不能把它完全埋葬在有限之中。

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

大自然的恩赐千变万化,心灵与心灵的差异几乎和身体与身体的差异一样大。

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

世界上最重要的事情是什么?这就是爱,我把它看作是一种能量,而不是一种情感。

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

如果我们有什么好话要说,有什么柔情要表达,我们会感到羞愧。