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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

这是一件奇怪的事情……每一种信仰都承诺有一个天堂，绝对不适合任何有文明品味的人居住。

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

如果一个人能在梦中穿过天堂，并得到一朵花作为他的灵魂真的在那里的保证，如果他醒来时发现那朵花在他手里——啊，那又怎么样?

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

这是一个多么奇怪的现象，你可以让人们为世界的自由而死，而他们却不愿做出必要的小小的牺牲，把自己从个人的束缚中解放出来。

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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

历史上没有任何一个认为自己可以通过不冒犯敌人来保护自由的人幸存下来。

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Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.

自然，人们会好奇我的亲生母亲对我有个电视妈妈有什么感觉。

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

生活的目的就是生活的目的。

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