The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  • -- Tom Wolfe 汤姆·沃尔夫

我现在生活的全部信念都建立在这样一种信念之上:孤独远非我和其他几个孤独的人所特有的一种罕见而奇特的现象,而是人类存在的中心和不可避免的事实。

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When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

当我在学校的时候,我第一天到那里,每个人都有长长的,金色的,直发,而我有短的,黑色的,卷曲的头发。我立刻觉得自己不适应,开始留头发。但我明白了,只有当我真正做自己,感到舒适和自信时,我才会感到快乐。

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

我退出了公共事务,因为我深信我没有能力做任何好事,我对那些在我看来与共同政策和正义不一致的措施深恶痛绝。

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

我似乎在对自己发誓,总有一天,我要到冰雪覆盖的地方去,一直走到地球的一个极点,也就是这个巨大的圆球所在的地轴的一端。

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

孤独的人是一种寂寞的东西,一块石头,一根骨头,一根棍子,一个装吉尔贝杜松子酒的容器,一个弯着腰坐在旅馆床边的人,像秋风一样,发出阵阵叹息。

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

生活中最大的幸福是坚信我们被爱着——为自己而爱,或者更确切地说,为自己而爱。

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

人类的苦难必须在某处停止;没有风总是能刮起风暴。

Loneliness is to endure the presence of one who does not understand.

寂寞是忍受一个不懂的人的存在。