Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

  • -- Theodor W. Adorno 狄奥多·阿多诺

今天,自我意识已不再意味着任何东西,而只是作为一种尴尬的自我反省,作为无能为力的实现:知道自己什么都不是。

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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

舞者,今天的许多舞者在技术上可以做很多。你可以给他们一些复杂的步骤,然后是更复杂的,烟火的——他们可以把这些步骤执行到完美。但要用纯古典的线条做简单的步骤,确实很难。

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

婚姻是你生活的一个整体反映:你如何对待别人,你如何争论,你在自己的思想中有多安全。你对自己的观点争论得有多激烈?你用什么样的蔑视来看待别人的观点?

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

我记得我想我的余生将会是一个人的。当我想到这一点的时候,我并没有哭,只是意识到我已经自给自足这么久了。

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

我喜欢的东西不一定反映出这种文化认为正确的东西。不知何故,我觉得维持现状没什么意思。

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

当然,具有讽刺意味的是,我的职业生涯比我多年来模仿的一些人持续的时间要长得多。

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

人们会因为缺乏自我实现而挨饿,就像他们会因为没有面包而挨饿一样。

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

与今天的工资相比,我们的削减幅度很小,但在当时是非常好的。

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

在艺术中,手永远不能执行高于心所能想象的任何事情。

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

我仍然最喜欢演奏蓝调。

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

雕塑比绘画的寿命长得多。