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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

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If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

如果大多数人不愿意看到困难，这主要是因为，有意识或无意识地，他们认为将由他们来为其他人解决这些问题，因为他们相信自己有能力做到这一点。

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞，与你争竞的，岂不是给你大教训吗?

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

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What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men

困难是什么?只有一个词，表示完成特定目标所需的力量;仅仅是关于必须使用的通知;对孩子和傻瓜来说，这是一个难题;只是对男人的一种刺激

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And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

我很高兴地说，无论我走到哪里，我都能找到不是黑人、不是白人的人，他们只是普通人。这就是我现在所处的位置，我曾经去过的地方，我打算待在这里。

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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

想知道写日记的对象是谁是件很有趣的事。可能是对自己身份的神秘化身。

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I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

我一直梦想着演戏，但在阿德莱德，我们没有机会成为明星。

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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

人类语言和文字所能做的最奇怪的事情就是创造一个隐喻。这是一个惊人的飞跃，不是吗?

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

绘画是一门诚实的艺术。作弊是不可能的。不是好就是坏。

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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

在我的钢琴协奏曲中，我把这种复调发展到更复杂的程度。

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A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

一本没有文字的书，就像一场没有吻的爱情;它是空的。

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Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

混沌是通过还原论过滤器观察的复杂性。

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

我们必须通过读得深而不是读得广来形成我们的思想。

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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。

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