法国作家语录(二)
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
经验是一盏昏暗的灯,只能照亮拿着灯的人。
——路易•费迪南•塞利纳
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
如果你没钱,你应该始终看起来有用。
——路易•费迪南•塞利纳 《茫茫黑夜漫游》
人一旦自暴自弃,就会察觉到自己变老。
——路易•费迪南•塞利纳 《茫茫黑夜漫游》
虚荣心是幸福的仇敌。
——肖德洛•德•拉克洛《危险的关系》
只有跟那些我们不久就要舍弃的人,才可以在一起纵情狂欢。
——肖德洛•德•拉克洛《危险的关系》
Love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.
我们吹嘘说爱情是我们快乐的原因,其实爱情至多只是我们快乐的借口而已。
——肖德洛•德•拉克洛《危险的关系》
The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place.
旅行的快乐大抵只存在于回忆之中,旅行的当下几乎从来不会有快乐可言。
——若利斯-卡尔•于斯曼《逆天》
Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.
旅行在他看来没有意义。他认为,想象足以弥补现实生活的平淡无奇。
——若利斯-卡尔•于斯曼《逆天》
In his opinion, it was possible to appease certain desires reputed to be the most difficult to satisfy under normal conditions – and that, what’s more, by a subtle subterfuge, by an approximate simulation of the object of those very desires.
他觉得,只要略施小计,努力模仿愿望所追求的目标,在日常生活中,完全有可能满足那些通常被视为最难满足的愿望。
——若利斯-卡尔•于斯曼《逆天》
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