She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

　　—J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

　　她什么也沒做，只是靜靜地倚靠在陽臺(tái)上，便占據(jù)了整個(gè)宇宙。

　　——杰羅姆·大衛(wèi)·塞林格，《我認(rèn)識(shí)的那個(gè)女孩》

　　Thus, have I had thee as a dream doth flatter. In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.

　　―Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 87

　　我曾擁有你，像一個(gè)美夢。在夢里稱王，醒來卻是一場空。

　　——莎士比亞十四行詩第87

　　He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

　　—Leo Tolstoy，Anna Karenina

　　他走下來，努力著不去看她，就好像她是太陽。但是，就像太陽，他不需要去看都能感到她的存在。

　　——列夫托爾斯泰《安娜卡列尼娜》

　　It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

　　—Aldous Huxley, Island

　　你太過努力了，周圍的黑暗會(huì)蒙蔽了你。放輕松一點(diǎn)，學(xué)會(huì)用淡定的態(tài)度去對待周遭的事情。當(dāng)你惶恐不安時(shí)，請學(xué)會(huì)平靜心態(tài)。該發(fā)生的事情終會(huì)悄然發(fā)生，你要做的，只是去輕松地應(yīng)對。

　　——阿道司·赫胥黎《島》

　　All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow。

　　—Leo Tolstoy，Anna Karenina

　　屬于生命的 一切多樣性，一切魅力，一切美好，都是由光和影構(gòu)成的。

　　——列夫托爾斯泰《安娜卡列尼娜》

　　But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

　　—Ernest Miller Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

　　人不是為失敗而生的。一個(gè)人可以被毀滅，但不能給打敗。

　　——歐內(nèi)斯特·米勒爾·海明威 《老人與?！?/p>

　　A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

　　—George Martin，A Song of Ice and Fire

　　好腦筋需要書本，就如同寶劍需要磨刀石。

　　——喬治·馬丁《冰與火之歌》

　　Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

　　—Nelle Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

　　我從不喜歡閱讀，直到我開始擔(dān)心我會(huì)無法閱讀。就像一個(gè)人從來不在意呼吸這件事。

　　——哈珀·李，《殺死一只知更鳥》

　　Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

　　—Francis Bacon, the Essays of Bacon

　　有一技之長者鄙讀書，無知者羨讀書，唯明智之士用讀書，然書并不以用處告人，用書之智不在書中，而在書外，全憑觀察得之。

　　——弗蘭西斯·培根 《培根隨筆》