Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

  • -- Francoise Sagan 弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈

当然,艺术的错觉是让人相信伟大的文学作品与生活息息相关,但事实恰恰相反。生活是无定形的,文学是形式的。

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I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

我想所有的孩子都认为他们的父母很严格。我的父母不是很严格,但他们似乎比大多数人都严格。但即使他们会说,‘哦,天哪,我这个时候得去上班’,他们也知道自己在做什么。我有很棒的父母。

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

为什么人们认为思维是大脑的产物,大脑部分由基因组组成,基因组是由自然选择形成的这种观点有危险的含义?

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

不相信自己的人,就不会相信别的。所有正直和品格的基础是我们对自己正直的信念。

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

所有的文学作品都是由作者认为很酷的东西组成的。读者会喜欢这本书到一定程度,他会同意作者关于什么是酷的观点。

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

命运是个大骗子。她似乎给我们的东西都卖得很贵。