The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

这个世界认为自己被优越的品德所冒犯,乐于把它降低到自己的水平。

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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

如果你能做到,那就不要总是想着自己,这样你也许会感到快乐。在你的生活中为像你一样重要的人腾出空间之前,你总是在寻找和迷失。

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

我不买小报,但你被它包围着,人们告诉你他们读过的东西。我会坐在火车上,越过某人的肩膀,想:这太熟悉了……天啊,是我。

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

当网络宣传开始的时候,我记得我被震惊了,世界并不是我们想象的那样,人们看待世界的方式千差万别。

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

所谓功德的充分性,就是知道我的功德还不够。

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

世界上最难触摸的东西是眼睛。

There's always merit to having a debate.

辩论总是有好处的。