There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

有些人,与其说他们有天赋,不如说他们有某种才能,能够在一个世纪,甚至是十年的愿望实现之前,就预见到这些愿望。

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Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which i don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.

歌德说过,“天赋是在隐私中培养出来的,”你知道吗?这是真的。对于一个演员来说,孤独是有必要的,但我认为大多数人并没有意识到这一点。当你在演戏的时候,你几乎为自己保守了一些秘密,而这些秘密只会让整个世界知道一小会儿。

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

说二十世纪是物理学的世纪,二十一世纪将是生物学的世纪,这已成为公认的智慧的一部分。

People think it’s funny when a dumb person can’t do things the same way they can.

当一个哑巴不能像他们一样做事时,人们会觉得很有趣。

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

非洲人是我的兄弟,但他是我几个世纪以来的弟弟。

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

美认为它不需要天赋,可以养活自己,所以它很快就死了。

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

我喜欢长距离散步,尤其是那些让我讨厌的人散步的时候。