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只有你自己才能把歲月描畫成一幅難以忘懷的人生畫卷。歲月是有情的,假如你奉獻(xiàn)給她的是一些色彩,它奉獻(xiàn)給你的也是一些色彩。努力過后,才知道許多事情,堅(jiān)持堅(jiān)持,就過來了。有時(shí)候覺得自己像個(gè)神經(jīng)病。在紛雜的塵世里,為自己留下一片純靜的心靈空間,不管是潮起潮落,也不管是陰晴圓缺,你都可以免去浮躁,義無反顧,勇往直前,輕松自如地走好人生路上的每一步3. 花一些時(shí)間,總會(huì)看清一些事。1. 若不給自己設(shè)限,則人生中就沒有限制你發(fā)揮的藩籬。2. 理查德本文寫作手法獨(dú)特,語言詼諧幽默但發(fā)人深思,是不可多得的佳作。因此他沒有時(shí)間過常人的生活,這又有什么好奇怪的呢?注釋本文是美國(guó)音樂評(píng)論家、作曲家迪姆斯這是件令人驚訝得目瞪口呆的事情——他體內(nèi)無限的創(chuàng)造力,像魔鬼般拼命掙扎、又挖又撓試圖沖出體外;這惡魔撕扯著他,沖他狂叫,要他譜寫出藏于體內(nèi)的樂曲。人們聆聽他的樂曲時(shí),并不因他也許曾是或不是什么樣的人而寬恕他。即使他有枯燥乏味或極其糟糕的作品,其乏味中仍可見偉大之處。他一刻也沒有動(dòng)搖過自己的信念和憧憬。相比之下,你也許會(huì)同意,用幾千元的債務(wù)來換得《指環(huán)》三部曲并不太貴。當(dāng)你掂量他的作品時(shí)——十三部歌劇和音樂劇,其中十一部仍然長(zhǎng)演不衰,八部當(dāng)之無愧地位于世界音樂劇偉大名作之列——當(dāng)你聆聽他的作品時(shí),他欠債不還也好,傷透人心也罷,這些代價(jià)似乎都不算什么。他是全世界最偉大的劇作家之一,一位偉大的思想家,是迄今為止全世界最了不起的音樂天才之一。因?yàn)?,這個(gè)身材矮小、滿臉病容、脾氣古怪、令人著迷的小個(gè)子自始至終都是對(duì)的。我所談到的關(guān)于他的一切情況都有記錄可查——包括報(bào)紙、警方報(bào)告、認(rèn)識(shí)他的人的證詞、他本人的信件以及他的自傳。這位怪才的名字叫理查德一旦他們使他失望——即使是拒絕赴宴之類的小事——或者他們對(duì)他不再那么有用,他就會(huì)毫不猶豫地與他們斷絕來往。 他在其他私人交往中也極端自私。他的第二個(gè)妻子本是最崇拜他、對(duì)他最忠實(shí)的朋友的妻子,他從好友手中奪走了她。無數(shù)個(gè)女人曾進(jìn)入過他的生活。但我們確實(shí)知道,他的一位最慷慨的資助人曾給他六千美元償還他在某市最急迫的債務(wù);一年之后,不得不再給他一萬六千美元,使他得以在另一城市安身,而不致因欠債去坐牢。只要他的某部歌劇一有上演的可能,他便會(huì)馬上肆意花錢,迅速積欠一筆十倍于預(yù)期所得版稅的債務(wù)。我還沒見到如果債主不告上法庭他會(huì)主動(dòng)付帳或還錢的記錄。為了支持這一信念,他向一切借得著錢的人借債——不管是男是女,也不管是朋友還是陌路人。他似乎不僅沒有養(yǎng)活自己的能力,也從沒想到過有這個(gè)義務(wù)。他會(huì)因愛犬死了而極度悲痛,也會(huì)殘忍無情到使羅馬皇帝也不寒而栗。心情不好時(shí),他要么用力跺腳,口出狂言,要么陷入極度的憂郁,陰沉地說要去東方當(dāng)和尚,了此殘生。他有一副作曲家的嗓子,但他會(huì)把著名的歌唱家請(qǐng)到自己家里,為他們演唱自己的作品,還要扮演劇中所有的角色。他也像作曲家一樣彈鋼琴,但要多糟有多糟。整部劇的歌詞寫好后,朋友們還得再去聽他高聲朗讀全劇。他寫歌劇,但往往是剛有個(gè)故事梗概,他就邀請(qǐng)——或者更確切說是召集——一群朋友到家里,高聲念給大家聽。為了證實(shí)這些理論,他寫小冊(cè)子、寫信、寫書……文字成千上萬,連篇累牘。他從來不會(huì)覺得,對(duì)于跟他接觸的人來說,他和他的所作所為并不是使人產(chǎn)生強(qiáng)烈興趣而為之傾倒的事情。他可能會(huì)一連好幾個(gè)小時(shí)滔滔不絕,千方百計(jì)地證明自己如何如何正確。他狂妄地認(rèn)為自己總是正確的。有時(shí),他才華橫溢;有時(shí),他又令人極其厭煩。想要聽到他的高論十分容易,他是世上最能使人筋疲力竭的健談?wù)咧弧KJ(rèn)為自己是世界上最偉大的戲劇家之一、最偉大的思想家之一、最偉大的作曲家之一。除非事情與自己有關(guān),否則他從來不屑對(duì)世界或世人瞧上一眼。而且他還是個(gè)夸大妄想狂。泰勒他身材矮小,頭卻很大,與他的身材很不相稱——是個(gè)滿臉病容的矮子。s genius… [16]Einstein39。s work so important and controversial. At a conference in Princeton in honor of his 70th birthday, one of the speakers, a Nobel Prize winner, tried to convey the magical quality of Einstein39。s mind, by a process we could not 23fathom. [11]When his wife died he was deeply shaken, but insisted that now more than ever was the time to be working hard. I remember going to his house to work with him during that sad time. 24His face was haggard and grieflined, but he put forth a great effort to concentrate. To help him, I steered the discussion away from routine matters into more difficult theoretical problems, and Einstein gradually became absorbed in the discussion. We kept at it for some two hours, and at the end his eyes were no longer sad. As I left, he thanked me with moving sincerity. “It was a fun,” he said. He had had a moment of 25surcease from grief, and then 26groping words expressed a deep emotion. [12]Einstein was an acplished amateur musician. We used to play duets, he on the violin, I at the piano. One day he surprised me by saying Mozart was the greatest poser of all. Beethoven “created” his music, but the music of Mozart was of such purity and beauty one felt he had merely “found” itthat it had always existed as part of the inner beauty of the Universe, waiting to be revealed. [13]It was this very Mozartean simplicity that most characterized Einstein39。s dismay, Einstein asked for an impossible sum: it was far too small. The director had to 3p