The past is always changing. Every time we remember something, we alter it slightly, until eventually, our memories become stories we tell ourselves.
过去总是在变化。每当我们回忆某事时,我们都会稍微改变它,直到最终,我们的记忆变成我们告诉自己的故事。
The beauty of poetry: that it says what cannot be said.
诗歌之美在于:它说出了无法言说之事。
The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
故事不在文字中;它在挣扎中。
You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.
你不必理解生活。你只需要过它。
The world is in a constant state of flux. Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next. You can never step into the same river twice.
世界处于不断变化的状态。没有什么是保持不变的。你永远不能两次踏入同一条河流。
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
当你停下来思考你是否爱一个人时,你已经永远停止爱那个人了。
We all want to be told stories, and we all want to tell stories. It's one of the things that makes us human.
我们都想听故事,也都想讲故事。这是使我们成为人类的原因之一。
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
世界是如此不可预测。事情突然发生,出乎意料。我们想要感觉我们能掌控自己的存在。在某些方面我们是,在某些方面我们不是。我们被偶然和巧合的力量所支配。
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
你以为这些永远不会发生在你身上,不可能发生在你身上,你是世界上唯一一个这些事都不会发生的人,然后,一件接一件,它们开始发生在你身上,就像发生在其他所有人身上一样。
Every morning I wake up in a bed that's not mine, in a house that's not mine, and I live the life of a man who's not me.
每天早上我醒来时,躺着的不是我的床,住的不是我的房子,过着不是我自己的人生。
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