英国作家语录（十二）
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
有时候，我觉得过去和将来在两头挤得如此紧，根本就没有现在的地方。
——伊夫林•沃 《旧地重游》
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
命运，起初是如此顺从、如此合理、如此通融，但最后却对幸福实施了残酷的报复。
——戴安娜•赛特菲尔德 《第十三个故事》
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
责任只不过是一个盆，你往里面放什么都行，从最大的罪恶到最大的善行。
——约翰•福尔斯《法国中尉的女人》
Curiosity begets love.
好奇心产生爱。
——格雷厄姆•斯威夫特《水之乡》
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
让人们恐惧的是事实的匮乏：你挖一个坑，人们就往里面填上他们的恐惧、幻想和欲望。
——希拉里•曼特尔 《狼厅》
Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire.
禁止一样东西，我们就渴望它。
——杰弗里•乔叟《坎特伯雷故事》
How true it was that one needed to be seen by others to be sure of one's own existence.
一个人需要被别人看见才能确认自己的存在，这实在是千真万确。
——A•S•拜雅特《隐之书》
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
吸取这个教训，自满就是无耻和无知，胸有大志胜过盲目和无奈的快乐。
——埃德温•A•艾勃特 《平面国》
I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.
我不喜欢接受很多教育，当你无知的时候，对一切都会倍感惊讶。
——杰拉尔德•达雷尔 《希腊三部曲》
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