Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

  • -- John Milton 约翰·米尔顿

真理从来不会来到这个世界上,而是像一个私生子一样,带着她出生的那个人的耻辱来到这个世界上。

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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

在文学史上,有许多伟大而不朽的作品,是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定,又怎么能继续写作呢?

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing, that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think about.

让你快乐或不快乐的,不是你拥有什么,不是你是谁,不是你在哪里,不是你在做什么。这是你的想法。

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

在他所上的几乎每一门课上,在他所读的几乎每一本书中,黑人的劣等思想都在他脑海中根深蒂固。

This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not alone.

这就是伟大的文学。它读起来像真理,永远粘在你身上,让你知道你并不孤单。

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

做你自己的主人,以一个人、一个人、一个公民、一个凡人的眼光来看待事物。

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

书可以告诉一个人,他最初的想法并不新鲜。