Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

每个人的工作,无论是文学、音乐、绘画还是其他任何工作,都是自己的一幅画像,他越想隐藏自己,他的性格就越会在不顾自己的情况下清晰地显现出来。

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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

我没有学生朋友可以和我谈论文学。我的导师是个很好的人,很有魅力,但是他没有文学鉴赏力。

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

文学传递着世界内外的信息。