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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的，大概是更大的部分，是沉默。

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If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

如果把艺术仅仅作为一种社会洞察力的手段，幻想就被剥夺了成为普通事物的机会，而现实则被剥夺了成为异国情调的机会。

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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

我们的记忆片段在被想象成文字之前没有任何连贯性。时间是语言、语法和时态的属性。

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

像智者一样思考，但要用人民的语言交流。

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You create your own reality.

你创造了你自己的现实。

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