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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。
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
作为一个组织者，我从世界的现状出发，而不是我想要的样子。
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。
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
幻觉是事实，而不是错误;错误的是基于它的判断。
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
没有幻想的人是很难受伤害的。
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。
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
因为我们这一代人等了这么久才要孩子，我们觉得我们已经“发现”了女性几千年来一直在做的事情。我不抱任何幻想，认为自己会和普通的职业母亲一样。我不想证明什么——我只是想要孩子。