“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
— Pearl Buck, Novelist
「想要獨自生活的人無法獲得成功,沒有回應別人他的心會枯萎,只聽到自己想法的回響而沒得到其它靈感,他的心智會萎縮。」– 珀爾‧巴克 (小說家)
- wither (v.) 枯萎,凋謝。shrink (v.) 收縮,變小。echo (n.) 回音,回響。inspiration (n.) 靈感;inspire (v.) 激發,喚起。
- 珀爾‧巴克 (1892-1973) 是美國 (旅華) 作家,中文名為賽珍珠,其許多著作都與東方文化有關,所著小說《大地》(The Good Earth) 在 1932 年獲得普利茲小說獎 (Pulitzer Prize),並在 1938 年獲得諾貝爾文學獎。