It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

  • -- Joyce Cary 乔伊斯·卡里

这是世界的悲剧,没有人知道他不知道什么;一个人知道的越少,他就越确信自己知道一切。

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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

现代人的悲剧不在于他对自己生命的意义知道得越来越少,而在于他对生活的烦恼越来越少。

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

只有诗人才能写悲剧。因为悲剧只不过是痛苦被诗歌的炼金术转化为狂喜。