It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

-- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

把人类想象成一个摇摇欲坠、容易犯错的精巧装置，总是需要观察和修补，总是处在被撕成碎片的边缘，这是一种扭曲，带有某种极不忠诚的东西。

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I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

我总是有很好的理由把东西拿出来，但从来没有一个理由把东西放进去。我不想，因为这意味着这幅画被简化了。

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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

与无意识地忽视动物的精神生活相比，无意识地歪曲事实几乎是无害的，直到它接近不寻常和不可思议的地步。

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People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

人们拍摄夏天的照片，只是为了防止有人认为他们错过了夏天，并证明它确实存在。

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