The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

  • -- Herbert Read 赫伯特·里德

唯一的罪恶是丑陋,如果我们全心相信这一点,人类精神的所有其他活动都可以自行解决。

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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

我们中的很多人长大了,我们长大了,不再像小时候那样,被人从字面上理解,但我们一生都带着伤疤。无论是美丽的伤疤还是丑陋的伤疤,都是因人而异的。

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

如果把这些奴隶束缚起来不是一种罪过,不是公然、公然地违反了正义和人道的所有规则,那么为了解放他们而使我们自己陷入任何麻烦和代价,确实是愚蠢的。

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

在大大小小的事情上,许多人似乎都对粗鲁感到担忧。粗鲁是我们人际关系中的一种丑陋,它似乎在增加而不是减少。

Sin is geographical.

罪恶是地理。