All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

我想指出的是,生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

习惯上,我可能会把这种制度化的消遣写得好像它存在于一般的环境之外,但我的故事不适合这样的处理。

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners’ coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn’t scrub it out.

我想进入议会的愿望就像矿工的煤尘,就在我的手指底下,我无法把它擦掉。

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

人是一种方法,一种渐进的安排;一个选择的原则,收集他喜欢他;不论走到哪里,都是公众。

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

没有办法穿透生命的表面,只有在某一点上认真地攻击它。

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

我认为罗马人认为,如果有必要,今天的将军明天就应该当兵。

The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.

你越喜欢自己的决定,就越不需要别人去爱。

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

教育的最大困难是从思想中获得经验。

The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

房子的重要性在于……远比我的未来重要。

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

玫瑰没有任何解释;她绽放,因为她绽放。

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

我竖起大拇指,它遮住了地球。

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

减轻痛苦是我的基本原则。

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

忠于自己的欲望是灵魂的责任。

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。

I write music with an exclamation point!

我用感叹号写音乐!

Fair and softly goes far.

温柔大方,前程远大。