毛姆英文语录

51、他声称他希望人都应该是赤身裸体、一丝不挂。当下贱、残忍、自私或色欲出现在他面前时，他都愉快地搓着双手：那才是事情的本来面目。在巴黎的时候，他就知道世间既无美也无丑，而只有事实；追求美完全是感情用事。

He said he hoped everyone should stay naked, in nature's garb. When cheap, cruel, selfish, or lust appeared in front of him, he happily rubbing his hands: that is the true nature of things. When in Paris, he knows that the world is neither beautiful nor ugly, but only in pursuit of beauty is completely sentimental.

52、我知道苦难无法使人更高贵，反而使人更卑微。它使人自私、猥琐、狭隘、猜忌。它把人们注意力吸引在细小的事情上面，它没有使人超越人本身，却使人称不上真正的人；我曾残忍地写道，我们不是从自己的苦难，而是从他人的苦难中才学会了顺从。

I know that suffering can not make people more noble, but make people more humble. It makes people selfish, narrow-minded, jealous, wretched. It is to attract people's attention on the small things, it did not make people beyond itself, but the person is not really; I was cruel wrote, we are not from their own suffering, but from the sufferings of others learned to obey.