The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

  • -- David McCullough 戴维·麦卡洛

历史的吸引力在于我们的人性。是什么让我们这么做?我们为什么要这么做?运气在多大程度上是决定因素?

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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

如果这是艺术家的标志,爱艺术先于一切,放弃一切,为艺术而放弃一切,认为只要他能得到一些东西,做一些好事,伟大的工作,生活中所有美好的东西就会失去,那么我从来就不是一个艺术家。

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

人类的物质似乎有一个主要的缺陷:它不喜欢仅仅被认为是人类的物质。它发现很难忍受这种感觉,即它必须被动地接受来自上面的变化。