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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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

文明从来没有达到如此轻视生命的程度;在此之前,从未有一代人沉浸在屈辱之中,对生活感到如此愤怒。

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。

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

人类文明始于第一次一个愤怒的人用一个词来代替石头。