When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

当一个人在他的写作中对这一点或那一点有疑问时,如果他问自己一百年后它将如何告诉他,它常常会指引他。

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

如果一个人能在梦中穿过天堂,并得到一朵花作为他的灵魂真的在那里的保证,如果他醒来时发现那朵花在他手里——啊,那又怎么样?

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

一个人,作为一个身体上的存在,总是朝向外部,认为他的幸福就在他的外部,最后转向内心,发现源头就在他的内心。

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

毫无疑问,我配得上我的敌人,但我不认为我配得上我的朋友。

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

爱和怀疑从来就不是好朋友。