Good things, when short, are twice as good.

-- Baltasar Gracián 巴尔塔萨尔·格雷西

美好的事物在短暂的时候是双倍的美好。

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There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

应该有两个主要目标在普通的散文:传达一个信息,包括任何会分散读者的注意力或检查他的习惯性的阅读速度,他应该觉得他是坐在缓解在出租车上,通过交通不是骑着马气质。

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

当像塔西佗一样，一个人有话要说时，简短地说几句话并不是什么伟大的艺术;然而，当一个人无话可说，却照样写了一整本书，把真相变成了一个说谎者——我称之为一种成就。

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

写作就是变得不感兴趣。在艺术中有一种放弃。

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

简洁是雄辩的一大魅力。

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