Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

我们所看见的,不是极近处的一个小斑点,能涂抹世界的荣耀,只留下我们看见那斑点的余地吗?我不知道有什么比自我更麻烦的了。

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You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

你说你不特别是因为这个世界不了解你,但那是对我的侮辱。我了解你。

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

我相信我们不仅爱别人身上的自己,也恨别人身上的自己。

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

世界的笑声不过是一种孤独,可怜地试图安慰自己。

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

我们的本性几乎不允许我们拥有足够的东西而不拥有太多。

There's no glory like those who save their country.

没有比那些拯救国家的人更光荣的了。