A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

  • -- Emil Cioran 萧沆

谈话中突然的沉默突然把我们带回本质:它揭示了我们必须为语言的发明付出多大的代价。

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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

电视新闻就像一道闪电。它发出很大的噪音,照亮了周围的一切,把其他的一切都留在黑暗中,然后突然消失了。

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

人们从不安静。走,走,走。我是一个有进取心的人,但是你需要休息和安静,只是坐下来想想事情。

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

莫里斯突然走了,我意识到……我想我已经成熟了。我不再对任何事情掉以轻心了。

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

和某人的一次谈话就决定了你们未来的关系,这太糟糕了。

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

可是孩子的呜咽声在寂静中比那盛怒中的强者咒骂得更厉害!

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

开怀大笑能让任何面试或谈话变得更好。