What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

  • -- Italo Calvino 伊塔罗·卡尔维诺

浪漫主义所谓的天才、才能或灵感,无非是凭经验找到正确的道路,跟着鼻子走,走捷径。

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You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

你是你选择接受和行动的信息的化身。要改变你的环境,你需要改变你的想法和随后的行动。

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

除了正义和公平,他什么都不要;只有当你来决定什么是对的,什么是公平的,他想要的就是一切,而你什么也不想要。

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

多数决定原则只有在你考虑到个人权利时才有效。因为你不能让五只狼和一只羊来决定晚餐吃什么。

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

观众总是为不同的人而存在的,但有时评论家们会阻止观众发现节目,而节目也会发现观众。

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

剧院的主要功能不是取悦自己,甚至不是取悦观众。是为人才服务。

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

在浪漫的层面上,如果你对某人有感觉,而且是纯洁的,那就意味着他们也是纯洁的。

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

在通往毁灭的道路上,从来都伴随着对理想的口惠而实不至。

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。

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

找一个好的司机和找一个好的音乐家一样重要。

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

在一个没有书的房子里,你能过什么样的生活?

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

这条路对我来说是新的,就像以前一样,这条路是要回去的。

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

我一直在尝试做浪漫的动作。