It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

要说出确切的事实是非常困难的,即使是关于你自己的即时感受——要比说出关于它们的一些并非确切事实的好话要困难得多。

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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

在某种程度上,你也会有这样的感觉,我们被骗了。如果纯粹是意识形态,你就会更了解这个世界。这是一个非常奇怪的时期,基本的东西都被拿走了。

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

但人类的行为有时是一种防御,一种隐藏动机和思想的方式,因为语言可以是一种隐藏思想和阻止交流的方式。

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

和一群银行家在一起,我总觉得衡量成功的标准是一个人不付出任何东西的程度。

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

每当两个好人就原则发生争执时,他们都是对的。