Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的,大概是更大的部分,是沉默。

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There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

有那么一刻,没有什么可以被抹去,也没有什么可以被留下,只有现实,而现实是可怕的。

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

有时传说使现实成为现实,并变得比事实更有用。

We've driven teenagers crazy in every language.

我们用各种语言把青少年逼疯了。

I want a language that speaks the truth.

我想要一种讲真话的语言。