She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
—J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
她什么也沒(méi)做群凶,只是靜靜地倚靠在陽(yáng)臺(tái)上逛尚,便占據(jù)了整個(gè)宇宙。
——杰羅姆·大衛(wèi)·塞林格闷板,《我認(rèn)識(shí)的那個(gè)女孩》
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.? Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
—Aldous Huxley, Island
你太過(guò)努力了寸宵,周?chē)暮诎禃?huì)蒙蔽了你茧彤。放輕松一點(diǎn)狮鸭,學(xué)會(huì)用淡定的態(tài)度去對(duì)待周遭的事情庵寞。當(dāng)你惶恐不安時(shí),請(qǐng)學(xué)會(huì)平靜心態(tài)闪朱。該發(fā)生的事情終會(huì)悄然發(fā)生月匣,你要做的钻洒,只是去輕松地應(yīng)對(duì)奋姿。
——阿道司·赫胥黎《島》
Do all you can to survive, because life is never something you live only for yourself.
為了活下來(lái),要拼盡全力素标。生命本就不僅僅是為你自己称诗。
——克里斯托弗·諾蘭 《敦刻爾克》
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow。
—Leo Tolstoy头遭,Anna Karenina
屬于生命的 一切多樣性寓免,一切魅力,一切美好计维,都是由光和影構(gòu)成的袜香。
——列夫托爾斯泰《安娜卡列尼娜》
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
如果你不想一死就被忘記,要么寫(xiě)點(diǎn)值得讀的東西鲫惶,要么做點(diǎn)值得寫(xiě)的事情蜈首。
——富蘭克林《窮理查年鑒》
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
—Immanuel Kant
我們不是因?yàn)閾碛惺裁炊挥校且驗(yàn)槟軌虿灰蕾?lài)別人而創(chuàng)造出什么而富有欠母。
——伊曼努爾·康德
But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
—Ernest Miller Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
人不是為失敗而生的欢策。一個(gè)人可以被毀滅,但不能給打敗赏淌。
——?dú)W內(nèi)斯特·米勒爾·海明威 《老人與翰瓤埽》
A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
—George Martin,A Song of Ice and Fire
好腦筋需要書(shū)本六水,就如同寶劍需要磨刀石俺孙。
——喬治·馬丁《冰與火之歌》
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
—Nelle Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
我從不喜歡閱讀辣卒,直到我開(kāi)始擔(dān)心我會(huì)無(wú)法閱讀。就像一個(gè)人從來(lái)不在意呼吸這件事鼠冕。
——哈珀·李添寺,《殺死一只知更鳥(niǎo)》
Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
—Francis Bacon, the Essays of Bacon
有一技之長(zhǎng)者鄙讀書(shū),無(wú)知者羨讀書(shū)懈费,唯明智之士用讀書(shū)计露,然書(shū)并不以用處告人,用書(shū)之智不在書(shū)中憎乙,而在書(shū)外票罐,全憑觀察得之。
Thus, have I had thee as a dream doth flatter. In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.
―Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 87
我曾擁有你泞边,像一個(gè)美夢(mèng)该押。在夢(mèng)里稱(chēng)王,醒來(lái)卻是一場(chǎng)空阵谚。
——莎士比亞十四行詩(shī)
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
—Leo Tolstoy蚕礼,Anna Karenina
他走下來(lái),努力著不去看她梢什,就好像她是太陽(yáng)奠蹬。但是,就像太陽(yáng)嗡午,他不需要去看都能感到她的存在囤躁。
——列夫托爾斯泰《安娜卡列尼娜》