The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

  • -- Albion W. Small 白化病W.小

社会学家和历史学家之间的争论是,历史学家学到了太多关于如何做这件事的知识,以至于他们忘记了该做什么。他们已经变得如此善于发现事实,以至于他们对那些使事实值得发现的事实毫无用处。

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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

文学的功能,通过它所有的变异,一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性,以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说,文学是颠覆性的。

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

情侣吵架是爱情的延续。