A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  • -- Elias Canetti 伊莱亚斯卡内蒂

一个“现代”的人没有什么可以添加到现代主义,如果仅仅因为他没有什么可以反对它。适应能力强的人会像虱子一样从时间的枯枝上掉下来。

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

苍白的死亡在穷人的城门和国王的宫殿里都是一样的。

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

我没有想得太远,只是想一次做一件事。

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

后现代主义已经消亡,因为它没有满足人类的需求。

You can't please all the people all the time.

你不可能总是讨好所有的人。

I will praise any man that will praise me.

凡赞美我的,我要赞美他。