With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感,把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸,我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

有时候,成为朋友意味着掌握时机的艺术。有沉默的时候。是时候放手了,让人们投入自己的命运。是时候收拾残局了。

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

我不应该谈论蜗牛。蜗牛,嗯,恭喜注意到它的人。它应该是你在每一集都要找的东西,而且每一集都有三次。

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

哲学理论或思想,作为观点和批评的工具,可以帮助我们收集那些可能被我们忽视的东西。

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

人们能够洞悉是什么在困扰着他们,但他们几乎没有做任何改变。

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

违背人性事实的理论是注定要失败的。

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

为了简洁,我变得晦涩难懂。

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

谚语常蕴含智慧。

I hardly ever go out when I'm home.

我在家的时候几乎从不出去。