June 3, 2010
themoonnight
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我們都處於陰溝之中，卻仍有人仰望星空。
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
上帝知道，我無論如何都不會跑去當牛津大學教授的。
我將會是一個詩人，一個作家，劇作家。
我會不知怎的就一舉成名，如果不是名動四方，那就是臭名遠播。
又或者我會把畢生都用來享樂。然後，誰知道呢，可能只是停下來休息，什麼也不做。
柏拉圖說過當人生走到盡頭時最崇高的，莫過於坐下來，沉思世間事物。也許這也將會是我最後的結局。
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow.
I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist.
Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.
Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing.
What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
1878年友人大衛亨特‧布萊爾問到他真正的抱負時所做的回應，王爾德時年24歲。
書沒有道德亦或不道德的分別。書就只有分寫得好、寫得差，僅此而已。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
藝術是世間唯一需要認真看待的事，而藝術家卻是社會上唯一拒絕認真的人。
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
大多數人都從眾，他們的思想是其他人的意見，他們的生活是一場模仿，他們熱衷於引旁人所述。
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
出自1895年寫給情人阿爾弗萊德長達5萬字的書信。
沒有烏托邦的世界地圖是不值一瞥的。
A map of the world which does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.
心是用來碎的。
The heart was made to be broken.
除了我的天才，其他沒什麼可申報的。
這是王爾德說的最著名的話之一，傳說是他過紐約海關時說過的話。雖然沒有當時留下的證據，因此可能是假的，但如果王爾德當時沒說，他也應該說的。
生活事關緊要，怎能不戲談。
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
愛情之不可理解比起死亡之神秘更甚。
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
教育事業是值得欽佩的，但請不時想起：並沒有什麼值得知道的事是能夠被傳授的。
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
祇有淺薄的人才了解自己。
Only the shallow know themselves.
原諒你的敵人；沒什麼能比這樣更讓他們生氣。
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
愛自己，是延續一生的羅曼史。
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
