The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

  • -- Julian Barbour 朱利安·巴伯

时间的流逝只不过是我们大脑产生的幻觉。

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You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

你必须有坚定的信念,对你所做的每件事都要彻底地提出质疑。无论你学了多少,无论你知道多少,你大脑中有智慧的那一部分并不一定会帮助你创作艺术。

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

的确,满是缺点是一种罪恶;但是,满是幻想却不愿意去认识它们,这是更大的罪恶,因为这是一种自愿性幻想的进一步错误。

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

我总能把事情做得比我预期的要长,但削减开支是残酷的。这就像你每次失去一个单词就割掉你的手指一样。

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

我没有电子阅读器。一个原因是,当我找到一个特别好的句子或段落时,我喜欢把书页折起来。

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

一个人旅行是为了逃避这一切,但这是一个伟大的幻想:这是不可能做到的,因为一个人旅行是带着他的思想。

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

我从任何地方获得灵感,这些灵感都储存在我的大脑中。

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

我们是时间的臣民,而时间的出价已不复存在。