Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

  • -- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

无论如何,我决不会说我丢了这样一件东西,但我已经把它找回来了。你的孩子死了吗?这是一种回报。你妻子死了吗?这是一种回报。你的财产被剥夺了吗?这不也是一种回报吗?

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The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

现代思维在精神上越来越具有批判性和分析性,因此它必须为自己设计一种表达引擎,这种引擎在任何一点上都是逻辑上站得住脚的,而且往往与现代科学的严谨精神相对应。

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

对我来说,小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时,这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。

"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing."

“读书。关心的事情。感到兴奋。不要对自己太过悲观。享受当下的认知游戏。”

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.

我该怎么做呢?我不知道我怎么会不这么做——事情就是这样。