Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

有欲望的学习是真正的活动;没有欲望,它只是活动的表象和嘲弄。

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There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

我认为,人们将试图重新把握大自然的惊奇和意外,对大自然的情绪进行更密切和更富有同情心的研究,同时,那些仍能作出这些基本反应的人,将重新感到惊奇和谦卑。

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

许多男人被一个女人表面上的痛苦所深深打动;他们以痛苦的表情来寻找坚贞或爱的迹象。

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻,它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

没有了欲望,你就会明白其中的奥秘。在欲望中,你只能看到表象。

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

说谎者和被说谎者一样,都有不被欺骗的欲望。

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

我研究的是一个在混乱中寻找疯狂的人。