I tend to think that the longer you look at a thing, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Literature is the passport to enter a larger life.
听从理性的人会迷失:理性奴役所有心智不够强大无法驾驭它的人。
They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they'd hang head down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along. But no—with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider.
人生苦短,不能不追随梦想。
Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
就像亲爱的圣芳济一样,我也和贫穷联姻,但我的婚姻并不成功。