我对任何唾手可得、快速、出于本能、即兴、含混的事物都没有信心。我相信缓慢、和平、细水长流的力量,踏实、冷静。我不相信缺乏自律精神、不自我建设以及不努力可以通往个人或集体的解放。 There are elements that characterize that epoch, which are part of me: I don’t believe in anything that is easy, quick, spontaneous, improvised, rough and ready. I believe in the strength of what is slow, calm, obstinate, devoid of fanaticisms and enthusiasms. I do not believe in any liberation either individual or collective that can be obtained without the cost of self-discipline, of self-construction, of effort.
不编织无谓的浪漫情怀,对自己的工作全心投入,天性害羞的不信任,积极参与广阔世界游走其中,不故步自封的坚定,嘲讽的人生观,清澄和理性的智慧。 Turin possessed certain qualities that attracted me that were not unlike those of my own region, and were ones I preferred: absence of romantic froth, reliance above all on one’s own work, an innate diffidence and reserve; and in addition the sure sense that one was part of the big world of action, not the closed provincial world, a pleasure in living that was tempered with irony, and a rational, clarifying intelligence.
“每逢你想要批评任何人的时候,”他对我说,“你就记住,这个世界上所有的人,并不是个个都有过你拥有的那些条件。” “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had。”