The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

事实上,我们只能爱我们自己知道的。我们知道的不多。在公共事务中,在文明的重建中,需要一种不那么引人注目和情绪化的东西,即容忍。

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Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

城市一直是文明的壁炉,那里的光和热辐射到黑暗中。

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

每个人都在不断地被摧毁和重建自己,有些人比其他人更彻底。

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

只有当一个文明的神被毁灭时,这个文明才会被毁灭。