Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

想象力是不朽者和不成熟者的最大乐趣,应该加以限制。为了享受生活,我们不应该享受它太多。

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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

我认为每个人都应该上大学,拿到学位,然后做六个月的酒保和六个月的出租车司机。这样他们才会真正受到教育。

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

很少有事情本身是不可能的;我们不希望手段战胜困难,更希望手段的运用和解决。

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

与另一个人分享食物是一种亲密的行为,不应该轻易沉溺其中。

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

生命比我想象的要短得多。