"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
愛(ài)自己是一生浪漫的開(kāi)始。
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."
我們都是孤獨(dú)的,生來(lái)孤獨(dú),死去孤獨(dú),盡管有真實(shí)的浪漫雜志,總有一天我們會(huì)回顧我們的生活,看到盡管有伴侶,我們一直都是孤獨(dú)的。
"The only way to escape the mundane is for you to constantly be evolving."
逃避平庸的唯一方法就是不斷進(jìn)化。
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
生活不是一系列對(duì)稱(chēng)排列的燈光;生活是一個(gè)光暈,一個(gè)半透明的信封,從意識(shí)的開(kāi)始到結(jié)束都包圍著我們。
"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
要讀得好,必須成為一個(gè)發(fā)明家。既有創(chuàng)造性的閱讀,也有創(chuàng)造性的寫(xiě)作。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
過(guò)去總是緊張的,而未來(lái)是完美的。
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
沒(méi)有道德或不道德的書(shū),只有寫(xiě)得好或?qū)懙貌畹臅?shū)。
"We do not write to be understood; we write in order to understand."
我們寫(xiě)作不是為了被理解,而是為了理解。
"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."
記憶是我們無(wú)法被驅(qū)逐的唯一天堂。
"The future is a concept—it exists only in our minds."
未來(lái)是一個(gè)概念——它只存在于我們的腦海中。