Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

写作是一种可怕的劳动,但不像懒惰那么可怕。

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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

我写作是为了找出我真正知道什么,以及我对某些事情的真实感受。写作需要我比谈话更深入地思考和记忆。写作提供了反思这个世界所必需的孤独。

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

然而,正是在这种孤独中,最深刻的活动才开始。正是在这里,你发现了没有运动的行动,那是深沉的休息的劳动,在朦胧中看到的远景,以及超越所有欲望的满足,它的极限延伸到无限。

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

艺术一直是一个国家健康的重要组成部分,但我们还没有达到这一点。

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

一个人只有用金钱才能与金钱斗争!从我的岩石碎片的故事。

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

劳动也需要更短的工作时间和对工作方式的发言权。

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

懒惰之于人的心灵,犹如生锈之于铁。

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

辛劳不是羞耻之源;懒惰是耻辱。

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

艺术是人在劳动中表达快乐的方式。