The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

  • -- Sholem Asch 阿施

鞭笞可能迫使人们从事体力劳动,但不能强迫他们从事精神创造。

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

许多以前不为人知的原因,现在正以一种综合的力量起作用,以钝化思维的辨别能力,并使之不适合所有自愿的努力,以把它减少到近乎野蛮的麻木状态。

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

我所有的照片都是围绕着陷入困境的想法而创作的,所以给了我一个机会,让我在努力表现成一个正常的小绅士的过程中,表现得极其严肃。

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

艺术界是一支完全由志愿者组成的队伍。如果一个人不想呆在这里,那么他或她就不必呆在这里。我们应该和任何我们想交往的人交往。

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

故事或小说的作者以人为对象,并模仿他们;他穷尽了他笔下人物的种种可能性。

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

如果努力工作是一件如此美妙的事情,那么富人肯定会把它藏在心里。

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

首先,城市是最高经济分工的所在地。