How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

为什么我们记得发生在我们身上的最微不足道的小事,却不记得我们有多少次向同一个人讲述过这些事情?

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

朋友之间品味或意见的差异与他们的琐事成正比,令人生厌。

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

我习惯了睡觉,也习惯了在梦中想象疯子醒来时所想象的事情。

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

这是我的剧院。在这里我可以一边唱歌,一边表演戏剧,一边做仰卧起坐。