The most difficult thing is the decision to

act, the rest is merely tenacity. (Amelia Earhart)

 

最困难的是做出采取行动的决定，而剩下的，只是要坚持下去。（阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特）

《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》获2002年度英国布克奖；被评为亚马逊网站2002年度最佳图书、《纽约时报》年度杰出图书、《出版家周刊》年度最佳图书、《洛杉矶时报》年度最佳小说；2004年又获德国图书奖。无论从什么方面来看，本书都是一部奇特的小说。它是一个扣人心弦的历险故事，描述一名印度男孩与成年孟加拉虎在太平洋上历时两百二十七天的生存历险故事。有人评价此书是一个关于人类在宇宙中的位置的寓言，一部引人入胜的超小说。机智使它更有活力，恐怖为它增添了趣味，它是一位不同寻常的天才的作品。

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so

much as to be understood. (George Orwell)

 

也许有人说想被爱，不如说想要被了解。（乔治·奥威尔）

The Soul Selects Her Own Society

Emily Dickinson

 

The Soul

selects her own Society —

Then—shuts

the Door—

To her

divine Majority—

Present

no more—

 

Unmoved—she

notes the Chariots —pausing—

At her

low Gate—

Unmoved—an

Emperor be kneeling

Upon her

Mat—

 

I've

known her—from an ample nation—

Choose

One—

Then—close

the Valves of her attention—

Like

Stone—

《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》获2002年度英国布克奖；被评为亚马逊网站2002年度最佳图书、《纽约时报》年度杰出图书、《出版家周刊》年度最佳图书、《洛杉矶时报》年度最佳小说；2004年又获德国图书奖。无论从什么方面来看，本书都是一部奇特的小说。它是一个扣人心弦的历险故事，描述一名印度男孩与成年孟加拉虎在太平洋上历时两百二十七天的生存历险故事。有人评价此书是一个关于人类在宇宙中的位置的寓言，一部引人入胜的超小说。机智使它更有活力，恐怖为它增添了趣味，它是一位不同寻常的天才的作品。

林语堂（1895年10月10日-1976年3月26日），福建龙溪人，原名和乐，后改玉堂，又改语堂，中国现代著名作家、学者、翻译家、语言学家，新道家代表人物。

 

早年留学美国、德国，获哈佛大学文学硕士，莱比锡大学语言学博士。回国后在清华大学、北京大学、厦门大学任教。1945年赴新加坡筹建南洋大学，任校长。曾任联合国教科文组织美术与文学主任、国际笔会副会长等职。

 

林语堂于1940年和1950年先后两度获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。曾创办《论语》《人世间》《宇宙风》等刊物，作品包括小说《京华烟云》《啼笑皆非》。散文和杂文文集《人生的盛宴的盛宴》《生活的艺术》以及译著《东坡诗文选》《浮生六记》等。

 

1966年定居台湾，1967年受聘为香港中文大学研究教授，主持编撰《林语堂当代汉英词典》。  1976年在香港逝世，享年80岁。

Happiness can be found in even the darkest

of times, but only to those who remember to turn on the light. (Albus

Dumbledore)

 

即便在最黑暗的时代也能够找到幸福，但只有那些记得点灯的人才可以做到。（阿不思·邓布利多）

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and

seeing great work at some moment every day. (Thornton Wilder)

 

每天花点时间，通过阅读、倾听和观看伟大的作品，去寻求高尚。（桑顿·威尔德）

Remember

Christina

Georgina Rossetti

 

Remember

me when I am gone away,

Gone far

away into the silent land;

When you

can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I

half turn to go yet turning stay.

 

Remember

me when no more day by day

You tell

me of our future that you planned:

Only

remember me; you understand

It will

be late to counsel then or pray.

 

Yet if

you should forget me for a while

And

afterwards remember, do not grieve :

For if

the darkness and corruption leave

 

A vestige

of the thoughts that once I had,

Better

by far you should forget and smile

Than

that you should remember and be sad.

Dover

Beach

Matthew Arnold

 

The sea

is calm tonight.

The tide

is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the

straits —on the French coast the light

Gleams

and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering

and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to

the window, sweet is the night air!

Only,

from the long line of spray

Where

the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen!

you hear the grating roar

Of

pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their

return, up the high strand,

Begin,

and cease, and then again begin,

With

tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The

eternal note of sadness in.

 

Sophocles

long ago

Heard it

on the Aegean, and it brought

Into his

mind the turbid ebb and flow

Of human

misery; we

Find

also in the sound a thought,

Hearing

it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea

of Faith

Was

once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore

Lay like

the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now

I only hear

Its

melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating,

to the breath

Of the

night wind, down the vast edges drear

And

naked shingles of the world.

Ah,

love, let us be true

To one

another! for the world, which seems

To lie

before us like a land of dreams,

So various,

so beautiful, so new,

Hath

really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor

certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we

are here as on a darkling plain

Swept

with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where

ignorant armies clash by night.