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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

  • -- Stephen Greenblatt 格林布拉特

我认为写文学作品应该给人带来乐趣。还应该讲些什么呢?它不是核物理。它必须给人带来快乐，否则就一文不值。

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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

伟大的文学作品应该对读者有一些好处:它必须使读者的感知速度加快，使他们的辨别能力增强，使他们的个人见解更加成熟。

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

除了自得其乐之外，另一种最大的乐趣在于阻止别人自得其乐，或者更广泛地说，是阻止别人获得权力。

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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

奢侈是一种诱人的快乐，是一种私生子的欢乐，嘴里有蜜，心里有苦，尾巴上有刺。

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

随着生活变得越来越可怕，文学也变得越来越可怕。

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