Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

  • -- Willie Dixon 威利狄克森

出生是一扇窗户的突然打开,透过它你可以看到一个惊人的前景。发生了什么事?一个奇迹。你没有拿任何东西来交换一切的可能性。

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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

为了真正享受狗的快乐,人们不只是试图把它训练成半人半狗。这样做的目的是让自己有可能部分变成一只狗。

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

强烈的期待本身就能把可能性变成现实;我们的欲望往往只是我们能够完成的事情的前驱。

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

生活有两种方式:你可以把生活当作没有奇迹;你可以把每件事都当作奇迹来生活。

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

出生是一件出乎意料的事,后来家里又多了一个孩子。

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

人是平等的;造成这种差别的不是出身,而是美德。

Given how we agree life's a miracle we sure do bitch about it a lot.

考虑到我们都认为生活是一个奇迹,我们肯定会抱怨很多。