やがて、平凡な人になる

生活使年轻人的感情淡漠，而坟墓则冲淡老年人的感情。不要错怪这些无辜的孩子们。

虽为小禽，尚能解艺道之奥妙，汝等生而为人竟不及鸟类。

平淡惹人惰，岁月空蹉跎。

风景画在自然风景欠佳的地方畅销，报业在人际关系稀薄的产业地带发达。

佐藤春夫曾说：“聋者看似愚人，盲者看似贤者。” 只因聋者每当听人说话时，会蹙起眉头，张口瞠目，或斜首或仰面，给人呆头呆脑之感，而盲人则默然端坐，低眉垂首，宛如瞑目沉思，俨然深思熟虑者，故有此说。

到底为什么要叫做 “孤独地狱” 呢？当时他曾觉得该不会是标题搞错了吧？现在总算搞清楚了，能够理解了。所谓孤独，就是追求幻想而得不到满足的饥渴。

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

a man to whom the difference between a pasture and a meadow seemed important, who got excited about sky color, who wrote a little poetry but not much fiction.

眼里没有噙泪，那份悲伤已被浓黑地固定成型，深嵌在他的瞳孔里。

我坐在吟子的枕边，心想，这个小老太太，要是不再悲伤和空虚该多好，可是不可能呀。她以为都用光了，可是悲伤和空虚是无穷尽的呀。