不少英语文学句子读起来都很优美动人，让我们一起来体会一下这些优美的英语句子吧

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
有些鸟儿天生就是关不住的，它们的羽毛太鲜明，歌声太甜美、也太狂野了，所以你只能放它们走，否则哪天你打开笼子喂它们时，它们也会想办法扬长而去。你知道把它们关住是不对的，所以你会为它们感到高兴，但如此一来，你住的地方仍然会因为它们离去而显得更加黯淡和空虚。

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
钟表戮杀了时间..., 只要按下正在决定关闭的按铃, 时间就死了：只有当钟表停止, 时间会来到世间。

For you, a thousand times over.
为你，千千万万遍。

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
人生不过是一个行走的影子，一个在舞台上指手划脚的笨拙的怜人，登场片刻，便在无声无息中悄然退去，这是一个愚人所讲的故事，充满了喧哗和骚动，却一无所指。

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
我们不是活在书本上的人。我们生活在留白处，这给我们更多自由，我们生活在故事的字里行间中。

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
生命太短暂了,不应该用来记恨,人生在世,谁都会有错误。

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends, and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
孤独是极大的不幸，我的朋友，孑然一身能快速摧毁理性。

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
时间永恒不变地做着一件事：让每个人看起来像个傻瓜，感觉像个笨蛋。

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
于是我们奋力向前划，逆流向上的小舟，不停地倒退，进入过去。

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

我们只能活在当下，别无其他。只有明白了这点，才能更加接近永恒。

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