All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

  • -- George Henry Lewes 乔治·亨利·路易斯

所有糟糕的文学作品都建立在不完善的洞察力或模仿的基础上,而模仿可以被定义为“二手的”。

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

在这个世界上,跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中,我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

文学同时以错误和真理的形式存在;它既背叛又服从自己的存在方式。

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

我喜欢时尚,因为它包含了一天的心情,当下的时刻-像音乐,文学和艺术。

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

几乎所有荒谬的行为都源于模仿那些我们不可能雷同的人。