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天地不仁，以万物为刍狗；圣人不仁，以百姓为刍狗。

老子

通过经验获得的东西比通过推理获得的东西更真实、更坚实。

What we gain by experience is more real and more solid than what we gain by reasoning.

普罗提诺

乡村的夜晚，星星特别亮，仿佛能照进人的心里。

胡正

These walls are very interesting. When you first went to jail, you hated the high walls, and slowly, you get used to it. This is called institutionalization.

这些墙很有趣。刚入狱的时候，你痛恨周围的高墙；慢慢地，你习惯了生活在其中；最终你会发现自己不得不依靠它而生存。这就叫体制化。

弗兰克·德拉邦特

我要有你怀抱的形状，往往融化于水的线条。

卞之琳

创作的行为是一种魔法的行为。

The act of creation is an act of magic.

安东尼·塔皮埃斯

朋友不是奴仆。现实中的朋友需要如切如咨询，如切如磨。

陈果

引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈动机之一，是逃离日常琐碎生活及其痛苦的粗鲁和绝望的沉闷，就像这些人将宇宙及其构建置于他们情感生活的枢纽中，以寻找他们在个人生活的狭窄漩涡中找不到的和平和安全。

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science， is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness， such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life， in ordered to find the peace and the security， which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.