"The world is a very puzzling place, and it is a great privilege to be able to think about it."
世界是一個非常令人困惑的地方,能夠思考它是一種巨大的特權(quán)。
"We are all broken by something. We have all been hurt by life in some way. But we can be mended. We can be made whole again."
我們都被某些事情打碎過。我們都在某種程度上被生活傷害過。但我們可以被修復(fù)。我們可以再次變得完整。
"The soul is not a thing, it is a quality or aspect of a thing, and it is the quality of a thing that is most precious."
靈魂不是一種事物,它是一種事物的品質(zhì)或方面,而事物的品質(zhì)是最珍貴的。
"It is worth living for, to find out what is true."
為了發(fā)現(xiàn)什么是真實的,值得活下去。
"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."
有兩種情況,創(chuàng)造的圣潔之美變得耀眼奪目,它們同時發(fā)生。一種是我們感到自己對世界的不足,另一種是我們感到世界對我們的不足。
"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, that we can release ourselves from the old, old burden of resentment and recrimination."
被原諒只是禮物的一半。另一半是我們也可以原諒,我們可以從怨恨和指責(zé)的古老負擔(dān)中解脫出來。
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."
記憶可以使一件事看起來比實際更多。
"There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality."
愛中沒有正義,沒有比例,也不需要,因為在任何特定的情況下,它只是一個擁抱的、難以理解的現(xiàn)實的一瞥或寓言。
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