A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

  • -- Thomas Browne 托马斯·布朗

一个人可能像拥有一座城市一样拥有真理,但却被迫投降。

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

对拥有的欲望是永不满足的,以至于它可以生存,甚至爱本身。因此,爱,就是让所爱的人绝育。

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

衣服应该看起来像女人与生俱来的。这是一种占有的形式,属于彼此。

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

我可以被迫生活得没有幸福,但我决不会同意生活得没有荣誉。

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

小贩们在互相放弃原则的基础上把他们召集到一起。

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

周围没有人来迷惑我,所以我被迫成为原创。

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

我们所有的推理最终都屈服于感觉。