The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  • -- Vaclav Havel 瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔

试图把自己完全奉献给文学是最具欺骗性的事情,而且往往是自相矛盾的,是文学为之受苦。

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A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

沉默的人容易被认为是智者。如果一个人不愿意让别人看见他在日常生活中挤来挤去,不愿脱下外衣,那么他很容易就会被一层神秘的、不为人知的圣洁的面纱所笼罩,人们就会把他当作圣人来尊敬他。

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

足球比赛中最具欺骗性的一场比赛是直接打在门柱上。