There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

没有比这更令人厌恶的景象出现在一个老人身上,他不愿离开这个已经离开他的世界。

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Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.

创造一个世界,在这个世界里这些事物存在或不存在,或者它们以某种方式被扩展。用现实来检验这个虚构。读者会认出你所谈论的世界,即使它可能完全是另一个世界。

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

几千年来,许多文明都把婚姻定义为一男一女之间的结合。除了少数例外,那些没有跟随其后的文明都灭亡了。

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

我是否希望我们生活在一个性别不那么重要的世界里?答案是肯定的。你当我去做艺术的时候,我是否把自己当成了一个女人?当然不是。

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

时间痛苦地为之伸展的人是一个徒劳地等待的人,因为没有发现明天已经延续到昨天而感到失望。

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

我们还没有拥有我们自己,但同时我们知道我们有更多。

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

在这种美已经消失的地方,我们将重建它。

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

人类不仅能忍受;他将获胜。

I drink no more than a sponge.

我只喝一块海绵。