Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

  • -- Albert Camus 阿尔伯特·加缪

美是无法忍受的,它使我们绝望,让我们在一分钟内瞥见永恒,我们想把永恒延伸到整个时间。

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Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

自以为是的人会说服自己忘记自己是文明的一部分。然后他们可以利用这种文化,把它拉下来。这在过去发生过很多次。这可能发生在我们身上。

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

绝望是那些不了解罪恶的根源,看不到出路,也没有能力斗争的人的典型特征。现代工业无产阶级不属于这类阶级。

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

写作不是时间的问题,而是空间的问题。如果你的脑子里没有写作的空间,即使你有时间,你也不会写作。

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion.

有趣的是,绝望很快就会变成老伙伴。