Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

你没有必要离开这所房子。坐在你的桌子旁听。不要听,只要等待。甚至不要等待,完全安静和孤独。世界将向你展示它的真面目,它别无它法,它将狂喜地在你脚下扭动。

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

阅读能让我保持一种实质性的感觉——我的道德操守,我的智力操守。

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

一切都如我所愿。我高兴地走进了历史书。然后一切就分崩离析了。

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

阅读是一种快乐,是一种迫切需要的逃避,我不是为了学习而阅读,我是为了阅读而阅读。

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

照相机使每个人都成为他人现实中的游客,最终成为自己现实中的游客。

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

我们在短暂而忙碌的生活中读到的每一本新书,都意味着一本经典没有读。

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

当然,摆脱父母是儿童文学的传统。

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

当梦想变成了现实,现实变成了梦想,这是一个转折点。

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

不要要求生活在宁静的时代。那里没有文学。

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

工作是一种必须避免的罪恶。