A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

  • -- Emil Cioran 萧沆

一个民族与其说是思想和理论的集合体,不如说是一种执着。

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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

作为一个国家,我们为何如此痴迷于外国事物?它是我们殖民时代的遗产吗?我们需要外国电视机。我们要洋装。我们需要外国技术。为什么对进口商品如此痴迷?

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

我想为人们做一些他们永远不会忘记的事情。也许这是我一生中能做的最好的事情。

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

如果你放任这种对尊严的痴迷,它会毁了你的生活。

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

你不能拯救别人,你只能爱他们。

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

当时机成熟时,思想会迅速发展。

Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.

思想是思想的基石。