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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

也许一个人受苦是好事。一个艺术家如果快乐，他能做些什么吗?他会想做点什么吗?到底什么是艺术，除了抗议生活中可怕的严酷之外?

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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

动物对待生死的态度比我们人类好得多。他们知道自己的时间到了。当他们逝去的时候，我们是痛苦的一方，但这是一种疗伤的悲伤，让我们能够处理其他不那么容易控制的悲伤。

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After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

一百年以后，国王的儿子，也就是那个沉睡的公主的儿子，正在田野的那一边打猎。

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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

如果对我采取胁迫手段的人能通过辩论使我达到他的目的，毫无疑问，他会的。他假装要惩罚我，因为他的论据很充分;但他真的惩罚了我，因为他的论点站不住脚。

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Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

诗歌本身毫无用处，它的存在本身就代表着对忙碌和赚钱的所谓“现实世界”的抗议，因此我们必须拥抱、致敬和支持我们的诗人。

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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

我常常注意到，当我赋予小说中的人物一些珍贵的往事之后，它就会在我突然赋予它的那个人造的世界里枯萎。

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

我向上帝的祭坛发誓，永远反对任何形式的对人类思想的暴政。

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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

我意识到抗议画并不十分流行，但我画过很多。

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

承受太匆忙的惩罚，那是太少的速度。

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