Perhaps unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
阿兰·德波顿
英国作家

阿兰·德波顿(Alain de Botton),英国作家,1969年出生于瑞士苏黎世,毕业于英国剑桥大学。著有小说《爱情笔记》、《爱上浪漫》、《亲吻与诉说》及散文作品《拥抱逝水年华》、《哲学的慰藉》、《旅行的艺术》、《身份的焦虑》等。

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

如果你面对去年的自己不感到尴尬的话,你目前可能学习得不够努力。

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We suffer, therefore we think.

我们遭受痛苦,因此我们思考。

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

不存在什么工作与生活之间的平衡。每一个值得奋斗的目标都会打破生活的平衡。

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

一本书之所以成为一本“好书”,主要是因为我们在对的时候读了它。

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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

每个人都想要更好的生活,很少人想成为更好的人。

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Memory was in this respect similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

回忆和期待一样,是一种简化和剪辑现实的工具。 《旅行的艺术》

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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

无论是赏心悦目的事物,还是实实在在的东西,我们从中获取幸福的关键似乎取决于这样一个事实,那就是我们必须首先满足自己情感或心理上的一些更为重要的需求,诸如对理解、爱、宣泄和尊重的需求。《旅行的艺术》

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The key ingredients of happiness could not be material or aesthetic, but must always stubbornly psychological.

幸福的关键因素并非是物质的或审美的,而永远是心理上的。《旅行的艺术》

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Perhaps unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

也许不快乐的源泉正来自我们用单一的视角看世界。《旅行的艺术》

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A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.

美感标志着我们邂逅了我们心目中的美好生活的具体表现。《幸福的建筑》

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Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another

生活似乎是用一种焦虑代替另一种焦虑,用一种欲望代替另一种欲望的过程。《身份的焦虑》

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A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel—whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art—through the gigantic spaces of the world.

要消除社会地位低下引起的焦虑,旅行可能是一个好方法,通过实际的旅行或在艺术作品中神游,去感受世界的广阔无垠。《身份的焦虑》

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In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.

最终,我发现和谁结婚真的无所谓。如果你一开始喜欢一个人,最后你可能会讨厌这个人,而如果你一开始讨厌一个人,最后你很可能会觉得这个人还行。《爱情笔记》

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The motor of our ingenuity is the question ‘Does it have to be like this?’, from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.

创造力的发动机是提出一个问题:“一定要这样吗?” 政治改革、科学发展、关系改善以及更好的书都是提出这个问题后出现的。《哲学的慰藉》

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We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

一旦不再抱那么大的希望,我们就不会再这么愤怒了。《哲学的慰藉》

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Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

尽管在金钱往来上,欠债是理应受到谴责的,但奇怪的是,处理得当的债务却是友谊和爱情的重要支柱。 《爱上浪漫》

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The thought of death should usher us towards whatever happens to matter most to us; it should lend us the courage to pursue the way of life we value in our hearts.

死亡的念头会把我们推向对我们而言最重要的事情,这种念头会赋予我们勇气,促使我们追求内心所重视的生活方式。《机场里的小旅行》

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如果你面对去年的自己不感到尴尬的话,你目前可能学习得不够努力。

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

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我们遭受痛苦,因此我们思考。

We suffer, therefore we think.

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