I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

  • -- Elif Batuman 艾丽夫·贝图曼

我不在乎真相;我在乎美。我花了许多年的时间——花了我一生的经验——才意识到它们其实是一样的东西。

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What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

我所观察到的,我所想象到的,当然也是我所希望的,随着年龄的增长,你会变得成熟起来,随着时间的推移,你会接受。我想我会找到的。

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

当你有一项伟大而艰巨的任务时,有些事情几乎是不可能的,如果你一次只做一点,每天都做一点,工作就会突然结束。