9月18日

培養寬容
齊邦媛 ( 1924~ )

對於我最有吸引力的是時間和文字。時間深邃難測，
用有限的文字去描繪時間真貌，簡直是悲壯之舉。

為什麼說人生苦短？是因為看不夠這千變萬化的人生。

等待的意境實在豐富，尤其是在各種飛機場，
坐看人潮，好似世界在你面前碎步走過。

──選自《一生中的一天》

September 18

Cultivating Magnanimity
Chi Pang-yuan (1924 - )
English translation: Zhi Yue

The most attractive things to me are time and language. Time
is profound and hard to fathom, but language, even with its
limitations, is able to depict its true appearance─simply a moving
and tragic act in itself.

Why is life said to be short? It is because we haven’t seen
enough of this ever-changing life.

The experience of waiting can be truly profound, especially
sitting in airports watching people who hurry about as if the
entire world is passing in front of you.

── from Yisheng Zhong De Yitian (One Day in Life)