The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it could be.
真正的天才对于不完整感到战栗——通常宁愿保持沉默,也不愿说一些不完全的话。
"Manchmal muss man weit reisen, um zu verstehen, was zu Hause passiert."
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.