分手别再写“你喜欢大海，我爱过你”了，太俗……(2)

一战时，海明威在意大利米兰的医院遇到护士安格妮冯·库洛斯基（Agnes von Kurowsky），并疯狂爱上她，但安格妮年长海明威7岁。

面对痴情于自己的小弟弟，护士小姐姐安格妮是这样终结姐弟恋的……

Now, after a couple of months away from you, I know that I am still very fond of you, but, it is more as a mother than as a sweetheart. 

如今，在与你分别几个月后，我觉得自己依旧很喜欢你，不过，这更像是妈妈对孩子的喜爱，而非恋人间的情愫。

I am now and always will be too old, and that's the truth, and I can't get away from the fact that you're just a boy – a kid.

我对你来说太老了，现在是这样，将来也永远如此，这就是事实。而且我无法回避一点：你只是个男孩，一个孩子。

And I hope and pray that after you thought things out, you’ll be able to forgive me and start a wonderful career and show what a man you really are.

我希望并祈祷，当你想明白后，你会原谅我，你将前程似锦，成为一名真正的男子汉。

1918年，19岁的海明威和26岁的安格妮·库洛斯基

一句玩笑话，让亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln）身陷订婚风波。

林肯的邻居伊丽莎白·阿贝尔（Elizabeth Abell）一直想撮合林肯和她的妹妹玛丽·欧文斯（ Mary Owens），后者比林肯有钱。林肯有一次开玩笑说，如果玛丽愿意搬来伊利诺伊州，他就娶她。

谁知玛丽信以为真，林肯后悔不已，为了有尊严地“食言”，他给玛丽写了三封长信，把自己惨淡的生活环境描绘了一番，还旁敲侧击，让她自己做出更明智的决定。

This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business after all, at least it is so to me.

在斯普林菲尔德的生活真是无聊透顶，至少对于我是如此。

I am often thinking about what we said of your coming to live at Springfield. I am afraid you would not be satisfied. 

关于我们之前说的你搬来斯普林菲尔德住的事，我常常思考。我担心你会住得不舒心。

You have not been accustomed to hardship, and it may be more severe than you now imagine.

你没有经受过苦日子，而这儿的生活可能比你想象得还要艰苦得多。

I know you are capable of thinking correctly on any subject, and if you deliberate maturely upon this, before you decide, then I am willing to abide your decision.

我知道你有能力正确思考任何问题，如果你在做决定前，极为成熟地考虑这件事，我会乐意尊重你的决定。

亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865）

看看德国哲学家尼采（Friedrich Nietzsche）的分手信，把最不中听的祝福送给前任。

Listen to me when I say that just as a bee abandons its flower once pollination is complete, you too must move onward, or go under.

听我说，正如蜜蜂在授粉后会离开花朵一样，你必须往前走，继续走下去。

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

很快，你将遇到一个凤凰涅槃般的男子，而我最大的愿望是他不会让你染上梅毒。

古希腊大哲学家柏拉图（Plato）果然最爱的还是老师苏格拉底，连分手信里都要提到他。

It pains me to admit it, but Socrates was right about you. You are incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself. When was the last time you even came to see me lecture at the Academy? 

要承认这点很痛苦，但苏格拉底说的一点没错。你除了自己完全不会考虑别人。你上次来学院听我的讲座是什么时候？

I have been lost in a state of denial for long enough. Now I finally realize that your love is not true. Your beauty is transcendent, yes, but painfully abstract. Leave me to grapple with the material world. Be gone.

我已经在否定状态中迷失够久了。现在，我终于意识到，你的爱是虚假的。你确实拥有非凡的美，但那美是如此令人心痛地抽象。让我去和现实可感的世界争斗吧。你走吧。