The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  • -- Walter Elliot 沃尔特·艾略特

沙漠有它的沉默的神圣,人群有它的谈话的神圣。

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I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.

我一直认为,如果每个人在成年初期都能失明或失聪几天,那将是一件幸事。黑暗会使他珍惜光明;寂静会教会他声音的乐趣。

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

在寂静的夜晚,我常常希望从一个人那里得到几句爱的话语,而不是成千上万人的掌声。

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

阅读所有的好书就像与过去几个世纪最杰出的人交谈。

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

没有人会像狗一样欣赏你谈话的特别天赋。

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

生命是沙漠,生命是孤独,死亡与我们同在。

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

虔诚的信徒在沙漠中开辟了花园。