"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
真正的发现之旅不在于寻找新的风景,而在于拥有新的眼光。
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
旅程就像婚姻。认为你控制它肯定是错误的。
旅程就是目的地。
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
旅行就是发现每个人对其他国家的看法都是错误的。
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
世界是一本书,不旅行的人只读了一页。
"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography."
每个城市都有性别和年龄,这与人口统计无关。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
过去总是紧张的,未来是完美的。
"Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases."
记忆就像一只狗,它喜欢躺在哪里就躺在哪里。
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
旅行是一种残酷。它迫使你信任陌生人,失去所有熟悉的家庭和朋友的舒适感。你不断地失去平衡。除了基本的东西:空气、睡眠、梦想、海洋、天空——所有趋向于永恒或我们想象中的永恒的东西,没有什么是属于你的。
"We read to know we're not alone."
我们阅读是为了知道我们并不孤单。