Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

  • -- James Baldwin 鲍德温

欧洲拥有我们尚未拥有的东西,一种神秘而不可抗拒的生命极限的感觉,一句话,一种悲剧的感觉。我们拥有他们迫切需要的东西:对生活的可能性的感知。

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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

对你的缺陷的反抗不会给你带来任何好处。自怜于事无补。一个人必须有冒险精神,敢于接受自己是一堆可能性,并从事世界上最有趣的游戏——发挥自己最大的潜能。

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

沉默的人容易被认为是智者。如果一个人不愿意让别人看见他在日常生活中挤来挤去,不愿脱下外衣,那么他很容易就会被一层神秘的、不为人知的圣洁的面纱所笼罩,人们就会把他当作圣人来尊敬他。

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

出版业是一个非常神秘的行业。很难预测一本书会有什么样的销量或销量,而且广告似乎也没什么用。