Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

相信残忍的上帝会使人变得残忍。

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

小说是一种产生同情心的机器,把我们从懒惰中拯救出来。生活是善良的还是残酷的?是的,文学的答案。人是好是坏?没错,文学说。但与其他认知系统不同的是,文学拒绝消除一个事实而代之以另一个事实。

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

每个人都是不诚实的,谁靠别人的劳动生活,无论他是否占据了一个宝座。

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

我认为女人和男人一样残忍,男人和女人一样温柔,反之亦然。

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

他是世界上最幸福的人,因为整个世界似乎都在向我微笑。