What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

  • -- Edward Bond 爱德华·邦德

莎士比亚和希腊人所能做的是从根本上质疑人类的意义。

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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候,生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样,他就不会觉得那么武断。

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

每一幅抽象的世界图景都像风暴的蓝图一样不可能。不要因为你是人类而感到羞耻:要自豪!在你的内心,金库后面的金库永远敞开着。你永远不会结束,这是应该的。

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

这就是莎士比亚的形式;谁走在人生的每一条道路上,感受着每一份激情;对于全人类来说,只有他自己的天才才能获得的经验,现在才会有,将来也永远会有。

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

莎士比亚作品中有这样伟大的东西吗?只有一个人不能这样说!但是你怎么看?——什么?-没有悲伤的东西吗?什么?——什么?

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

没有人会知道真相,因为即使他们碰巧说了这句话,他们也不会知道自己说了这句话。

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

我想见见上帝。不去质疑它,只是在它是什么的时候有一个峰值。我说“它”是因为我们不知道它是什么。