A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
欲望
Desire
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
这么多年来，欲望超越了表现，这难道不奇怪吗?
Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same.
你对改变的渴望一定要大于你对保持不变的渴望。
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
几乎所有的犯罪都源于对审美表达的压抑欲望。
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
每一种强烈的欲望也许都是一种想要与众不同的欲望。
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
爱不是选择性的，欲望是选择性的。爱情里没有陌生人。
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
永远幸福的生活是所有人最大的愿望。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
我认为这就是帮助我们的:自信、尊重、努力工作的愿望。
You desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.
你渴望逃离。我想逃跑。我想我们可以互相帮助。
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
压抑最初的欲望比满足随之而来的欲望要容易得多。
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
我并不想成为一名厨师，但我想成为一个被倾听的人。
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire.
没有一种满足不因欲望的延长而变得甜蜜。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
突然间，我产生了一种强烈的欲望，想让自己置身于古典和浪漫艺术的氛围之中。
I would desire that every man would lay his hand on his heart, and consider seriously whether the beginnings of the people’s happiness should be written in letters of blood.
我希望每个人都把手放在自己的心上，认真考虑一下人民幸福的开端是否应该用鲜血书写。
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
对拥有的欲望是永不满足的，以至于它可以生存，甚至爱本身。因此，爱，就是让所爱的人绝育。
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
死亡的打击就像爱人的钳子，让人感到疼痛和渴望。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。