贫穷并不是一种高贵的经历,它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有绝望,它意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷,确实可以引以自豪,但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
在把所有这一切搞得混淆不清时,人们非但没有使我们明理,反而使我们变得邪恶。
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That is how I refuel.
"The desert teaches patience, silence, and the value of small things."
心要安放在身体里,念头不越出本分,行为不超越规矩。