We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. 對熟悉過往的懷念、對陌生新奇之地的嚮往，我們在這兩極情緒間擺盪游移。 未曾親臨的他鄉異地，反而往往最能讓我們對之產生思鄉情懷。 文：Carson McCullers譯：Platero圖：朱恩伶

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孤獨是一種內心深度的標誌。它標示著一般社交的膚淺言談無法窺見的深沉內斂；而這是值得自己慶幸之事。我們孤獨地走進了悠遠流長的傳統，卻喜出望外，發現眾多志同道合的孤獨者與我為伴。

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It's a curious feature of Hopper's work that although it seems concerned to show us places that are transient and un-homely, we may, in contact with it, feel as if we have been carried back to some important place in ourselves, a place of stillness and sadness, of seriousness and authenticity: it can help us to remember ourselves. 霍伯 (Edward Hopper )的畫作有項耐人尋味的特色：明明是在呈現一些人來人往、彼此陌生又疏離隔絕的過客空間，卻又讓觀賞者彷彿被引領返回心中最為珍藏的某處。 那裡的一切凝結靜止、情緒氛圍蒼鬱深沉、恍若明心見性、直指本心。 這些作品讓我們能因此而找回了曾被遺忘的自我。 文：Alain de Botton譯：Platero圖：Edward Hopper, "New York Movie" (1939)