A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
神灭则文明灭。
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation’s paradise and its tomb.
民主是没有贡献的奇迹，它一时是天堂、一时是坟墓。
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
野心是一种毒品，它会使那些有疯癫潜质的人上瘾。
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
任何人都能逃入梦乡，做梦时我们都是天才，在那儿屠夫与诗人不分高下。
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
任何以他人名义发话的人都是骗子。
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
所有的证据显示，我们在这个世上无所事事。
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
混乱让你所学一文不名，混乱就是你本身。
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
意识是比起肉中刺更为令人烦恼。
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
批判是一种误解：我们必须阅读不是为了去理解他人，而是去理解我们的自己。
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
对于偃旗息鼓的你们而言，自由就是一切，对于大张旗鼓的我们而言，自由几乎是幻觉。
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
每一次我们所做出的妥协，伴随的是一种我们没有立即意识到的内心缩减。
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
光荣一旦得到，它还有什么价值？
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
上帝——一种因我们想象而生的病，我们已经被治愈了，因为如今不再有人因它而死。
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven’t been cut off.
那些没有被砍头的殉道者，招安成伟大的迫害者。
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
我预见有一天，除了电报和祷告，我们什么也读不到。
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
我没有国籍， 对于知识分子而言这可能是最好的状况。
I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
我只不过是一个意外。凡事何必如此认真呢？
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
如果我们视己如人视我，我们将当场消失。
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
共和国是神经衰弱的天堂，政治家是俯首帖耳于法律的暴君。
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
为了能够从事暴君的职务，精神错乱是必不可少的。
Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
难道历史从根本上而言，不是因为我们恐惧厌倦的结果吗？
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
因为我们都是骗子，所以我们相互容忍。
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
为了自杀感到烦躁是不值得的，因为你自杀得已经太晚。
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
生活因谵妄而兴盛，因倦怠而荒芜。
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
为了完成最细微的动作，不为罪恶所玷污，人必须征服自己，必须对自己实施暴力。
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
音乐是灵魂的庇护所，为幸福所溃烂。
My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn.
我的任务是杀死时间，时间也在等着杀死我。
How comfortable one is among murderers.
身处于一群杀手之间是多么惬意。
Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
否定是心灵的第一自由，
一旦获得，它将监禁我们。
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
没有人能心安理得的享受自由。
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
没有人治愈先天性疾病，致命伤从来就不只一处。
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language.
人不居住在城市中，人居住在语言里。
That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
这是我们的国家，我们的祖国，而不是其他人的。
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
人不能既想拯救世界，又想统治世界。
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
直觉才是真的。
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
理性是娼妓，搔首弄姿、人尽可夫、寡廉鲜耻地活着。
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
如果我们没有在某天碰到某位比我们更糟糕的人，这种念头的话，我们还会对人类感兴趣吗？
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
当我们不能自生，那就庆祝我们自灭吧。
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
谁是造反者？谁举起了武器？很少是奴隶，但是几乎总是由压迫者变成奴隶。
Word - that invisible dagger.
词——无形的匕首。
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
你精疲力竭，你是一个行尸走肉的人，你不但停止了爱，也停止了恨。
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