I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  • -- Isaac Asimov 艾萨克·阿西莫夫

我不相信人能长生不老;我唯一想要的就是通过我的书来了解这种事情。

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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

有些人把散文家的部分写得很好,因而在这一过程中获得了不朽的成就;但是我们没有很多这样的书,它们在我们的书架上只占一个可怜的数字。遗憾的是,事情竟如此发展,因为一位优秀的散文家是你能想象到的最愉快的伴侣。

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

不朽:一个人们为之哭泣,为之跪拜,为之争辩,为之争辩,为之说谎的玩具,如果允许的话,它将是值得永远为之骄傲的东西。