One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

一个人可以爱一个孩子,也许爱得比爱另一个成年人更深,但如果认为孩子也能感受到爱的回报,那就太草率了。

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

幸福是一种想象的状态,从前常由生者归于死者,现在常由成人归于儿童,儿童归于成人。

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

如果我告诉你所有那些偷偷告诉我我影响了他们的人,你永远不会相信,你也永远不会在报纸上看到。

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

因此,我们中的大多数人实际上是在别人对什么是重要的公式的支配下生存的。

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

当成年人假装对科学不感兴趣时,孩子们可以抓住它来区分自己。