I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我所认识的被贪恋妻儿、贪图安逸所毁灭的人,比我所见过的被酗酒和娼妓所毁灭的人还要多。

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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

文明已经被摧毁了很多次,这个文明也不例外。它可以被摧毁。我们可以把时间想象成几百万年,生活就会一点一点地恢复。宇宙对我们的作用非常迫切,但地质时间是不同的。

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

这也是教会教训的一部分,就是世界是在某时被造,起于某时,因其邪恶而消灭。

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

嗯,我一直都有这种想要庆祝的欲望,并且在某种程度上成为我认为非常棒的事情的一部分。

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里,也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。