When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  • -- Muriel Spark 穆丽尔·斯帕克

当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年,它所揭示的并不是衰微,而是不朽的最初日子。

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Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

你是否充分利用机会取决于你是否做好了准备。学习你的手艺,方方面面。吃它,喝它,睡它,然后当你准备最充分的时候,你可以充分利用它。

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

正是数学本身的永葆青春,使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

自然作品中崇高的朴素往往源于观察者的崇高的短视。

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

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。

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

最高尚的批评是,批评家与其说是作者的对手,不如说是他的对手。

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

一个人没有什么比他所憎恨的笑话更能清楚地揭示他的性格了。

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

虽然准备好了殉道,我还是宁愿推迟。

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

艺术吸引我们只是因为它揭示了我们最隐秘的自我。