The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  • -- Isaac Bashevis Singer 艾萨克·巴什维斯辛格

文学的本质是情感与理智的战争,是生与死的战争。当文学变得过于理智——当它开始忽视激情、情感——它就会变得枯燥、愚蠢,而且实际上没有实质内容。

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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

我们愿意不惜任何代价活着;因此,我们不能用感情来负担自己的负担,尽管在和平时期,这些感情可能具有足够的装饰性,但在这里却不合时宜。

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

我们不能为了保卫国外的自由而放弃国内的自由。