The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  • -- Iris Murdoch 默多克

一般来说,认为一个人无法在特定的灾难中幸存下来的想法是一种安慰,因为这相当于废除了灾难。

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If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

如果每个男人都以妻子的舒适和幸福为首要考虑,而每个妻子都以丈夫的舒适和幸福为首要考虑,那么我们的离婚就不会那么多了。

We chose the shoes not on performance or durability or comfort, because we can't really judge those kinds of things, but purely on their visual excitement, how beautiful they look.”

我们选择这双鞋不是因为它的性能、耐用性或舒适度,因为我们无法真正评判这类东西,而仅仅是看它们的视觉刺激,它们看起来有多美。”

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

写作时,一般来说,把你写的每一个字都用笔写一遍;你不知道它会给你的风格带来多大的活力。

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

一个好的一般规则是说,香味比味道好,反之亦然。

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

教育是当学到的东西被遗忘时仍然存在的东西。

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

谁不活在诗歌里,谁就不能活在这个世界上。