If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

如果我们对人类生活中所有平凡的东西都有敏锐的洞察力,那就像听到草长出来或者松鼠的心跳,我们就会死于那咆哮,那是沉默的另一面。

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

一连串兴奋的、转瞬即逝的、杂七杂八的快乐不是幸福;幸福存在于想象的反思和判断中,当一个人的生活,或人类生活的画面,真实的过去或现在,满足了意志,并被欣然接受。

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

那么,让我们起来干吧,对任何命运都要有一颗勇敢的心;不断地获得,不断地追求,要学会苦干和耐心等待。

When you become a writer your heart and mind because divided between your many selves.

当你成为一名作家时,你的心和思想因为你的许多自我而分裂。

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

死刑是我们社会对人类生命神圣性的承认。