After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

在你耗尽了商业、政治、社交等领域的一切之后——发现这些东西都不能让你最终满意,也不能永久磨损——还剩下什么?大自然仍然存在。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

我失去了很多最好的朋友……我现在要让自己满意,而不是批评,甚至不是我的朋友。

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

我发现,失去幸福的一种必然的方式,就是牺牲其他一切来换取幸福。

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

我发现只有一种方法可以让自己看起来很瘦:和胖子一起出去玩。