A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

  • -- Emil Cioran 萧沆

谈话中突然的沉默突然把我们带回本质:它揭示了我们必须为语言的发明付出多大的代价。

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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

突然,我意识到,车夫正在一座巨大的破城堡的院子里拉马,那座破城堡的高大的黑色窗户里没有一丝光亮,破城垛在天空的映衬下显出一条锯齿状的线。

When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

当编舞的机会出现时,我的脑海里只有一个机会。然后它很快就变成了一种职业。

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

在谈话中,凡是想说好听的话的人,是不会有出彩的。要使人高兴,就得说许多无关紧要的话,说许多极坏的话。

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

一个人不是你和他最后一次谈话时的那个人——他们是你整个关系中的那个人。

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

当代保守主义在所有重要问题上都保持沉默,这显示出它在智力上的无能。

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

没有人比沉默寡言的人更能掌握语言。