A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
幻想
Illusions
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
现代性的挑战在于不抱幻想，不幻灭。
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
所有的年轻女性都是从相信自己能够改变和改造嫁给自己的男人开始的。他们不能。
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
装饰你的家。它给人一种错觉，认为你的生活比实际生活更有趣。
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.
我们的恐惧比我们的危险更多，我们在想象中比在现实中遭受更多的痛苦。
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
看到那些一生都在假装坚强的人，哪怕只有一分钟，也失去了坚强，这是不好的。
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
幻想的枕头就像暴风雪中的雪花一样多。我们从一个梦醒到另一个梦。
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
我对我的艺术没有幻想。我是公众造就我的，因此，我不太可能忘记我欠他们的债。
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
想要敬拜神的人，对这事不可抱幼稚的幻想，而要勇敢地放弃他的自由和人性。
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
沉湎于希望的幻想是很自然的。我们倾向于对那个海妖闭上眼睛，直到她引诱我们走向死亡。
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
诀窍在于强调什么。我们要么让自己痛苦，要么让自己快乐。工作量是一样的。
I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
我现在从两个方面来看待生活 从赢和输，还是以某种方式 我记得这是人生的幻觉 我真的一点也不了解生活。
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
当你的朋友要求你对他们诚实时，不要相信他们。他们真正想要的是保持对自己的好感。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
当心，大人，那边的东西不是巨人，而是风车。
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
历史上最惨痛的教训之一是:如果我们被愚弄的时间足够长，我们往往会拒绝任何有关这种欺骗的证据。竹竿把我们捉住了。一旦你让一个骗子控制了你，你几乎永远不会再得到它。
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
没有幻想的人是很难受伤害的。
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
对他的狗来说，每个人都是拿破仑;因此，狗一直很受欢迎。
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
对于那些从太空看到地球的人，以及成百上千的人来说，这次经历无疑会改变你的视角。我们在这个世界上分享的东西比那些使我们分裂的东西更有价值。
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
青春是一种幻觉，是那些失去青春的人的幻觉。