The hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream; and now I wake, Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream’s sake.

  • -- Christina Rossetti 克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂

我梦想的希望只是一个梦,只是一个梦;现在我醒了,极度不舒服,为了一场梦而憔悴,衰老。

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The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

未来就在这里,现在,过去充满了实际的行动,真实的历史。乌托邦者的骨头上几乎没有肉来维持一个民族在坟墓时代。

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

但我们所谓的绝望,往往只是对未得到满足的希望的痛苦渴望。