I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

我能忍受蛮力,但蛮力的理智是相当难以忍受的。它的使用有些不公平。它打击的是智力。

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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

我花了两三个月的时间,想出了一个我认为足够的理由:如果真有上帝,他肯定不仁慈。我们对他的意义应该比蚂蚁小。如果真有上帝,或者真有上帝,他们会把自由意志看得比任何东西都重要。

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

让现实见鬼去吧!我想在音乐中死去,而不是在理性或散文中死去。人们不应该受到我们在他们面前表现出的那种克制,我们不应该在他们面前陷入谵妄。去他们的!

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

一件衣服的剪裁代表着才智和才能,代表着气质和心灵的颜色。

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

与其有一个强大而懒惰的智力,不如有一个善于运用的公平的智力。

You have no idea how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you, sometimes.

有时候,你不知道要强迫自己停止想你有多难。

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

事实上,欺骗一个傻瓜在我看来是一种值得一个机智的人去做的事情。

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

那些随波逐流的人知道他们不需要其他力量。

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

天才和人类一样,会因无用而生锈。