Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

想象力是不朽者和不成熟者的最大乐趣,应该加以限制。为了享受生活,我们不应该享受它太多。

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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

我们都会死的,我们所有人,真是个马戏团!单凭这一点就能让我们相爱,但事实并非如此。我们被琐事吓平,被琐事吞噬。

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

当一个像我这样见过很多次的女人,突然失去了联系;总是忙忙碌碌,永远也抽不出时间来,那就意味着一个男人。

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

我认为任何人都不应该在死后才写自传。

So much on my mind it's a wonder my neck doesn't snap.

我的脖子没有折断,真是个奇迹。