与这种生活相比，我们的日子确实是无关紧要的，尽管我们的画布很小，但我们仍然可以画一个杰作，只要我们满足于它是微型的。
(By comparison with such lives, our days were inconsequential indeed, and yet even though our canvas was small, still we could paint a masterpiece-as long as we were content for it to be a miniature.)