Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  • -- John Ruskin 约翰·罗斯金

我们的责任是保存过去不得不为自己说的话,并为我们自己说什么将是真正的未来。

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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

对我来说,历史应该是快乐的源泉。这不仅仅是我们公民责任的一部分。对我来说,这是对活着的体验的扩展,就像文学、艺术或音乐一样。

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

我有天赋,如果你有天赋,你就有义务使用它。

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

我认为你有义务分享你作为一个作家所知道的东西。

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

雪崩时没有一片雪花会感到有责任。

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

恐惧,源于那位严厉的主妇,责任。

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

别在意你的幸福;你的责任。