The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

  • -- Charles Horton Cooley 查尔斯·霍顿·库利

内心生活的文学很大程度上是与社会自我的过分激情斗争的记录。

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I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

我感到我对牺牲和奋斗的信念越来越强烈。我鄙视那种紧紧抓住舒适和私利这些微不足道的小事不放的生活。我认为,一个人不应该活到他开始衰老的年龄,当照亮他生命中最辉煌时刻的火焰已经减弱的时候。

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

人类的成长是一个独特的社会关系问题,而不是生物学问题。我们从家庭内部的联系中学到的东西取代了动物行为的本能;这就提出了一个问题,这些联系有多好?

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

你也可以明确指出某些社会问题,这些社会问题,在现实生活中,可能会受到偏见的影响,或者根本不会遇到,因为人们已经对它建立了防御。幻想让你突破自我防卫。

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

我做的每一出戏,我写的每一本书,我画的每一幅画,我都要与之斗争。我不知道一个项目来得容易是什么感觉。