真相很少是纯粹的,也从不简单。
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
我们就是我们假装成为的样子,所以我们必须小心我们假装成为什么。
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
对付不自由世界的唯一方法就是变得如此绝对自由,以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
故事没有开始或结束:人们任意选择那个经验时刻来回顾或展望。
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
世界击垮每个人,而后,有些人在破碎处变得坚强。
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
活着就是受苦,生存就是在苦难中找到某种意义。
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."
记忆是我们随身携带的日记。
"We are all the heroes of our own stories."
我们都是自己故事中的英雄。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
过去是一个异国他乡;他们在那里行事不同。
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
世界称之为不道德的书籍,其实是展示世界自身羞耻的书籍。
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.