Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

  • -- James Baldwin 鲍德温

没有什么比从痛苦中解脱更令人向往,但也没有什么比被人从拐杖中解脱更令人恐惧。

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

没有欲望就没有美德,因为一个人想要别人不想要的东西,谁能说他想要的孩子是罪恶还是美德呢?

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

我所认识的被贪恋妻儿、贪图安逸所毁灭的人,比我所见过的被酗酒和娼妓所毁灭的人还要多。