Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

  • -- Ellen Glasgow 格拉斯哥

没有什么比对记忆的渴望更消耗精力,更不合逻辑。

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The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

瓦萨高级阶级的大多数人不愿与我为伍,我必须承认,在阅读了他们思想和情感的样本之后,我不愿与瓦萨高级阶级的大多数人为伍。

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

正是这种把一切事物都屈从于我们自己目的的欲望,使它们变得混乱,是我们生活中每一个错误的主要根源。

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

事实上,一个人的后半生似乎是由他在前半生所积累的习惯所组成的。

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

我们的巨额盈余收入不合逻辑,令人难以忍受。

My body of work means nothing to me.

我的工作对我毫无意义。