To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

把想象看成形而上学,就是把想象看成生活的一部分,把想象看成生活的一部分,就是认识到技巧的程度。我们活在思想里。

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

根据我的形而上学,自由是一种智力主体的自我决定的力量。它意味着思考、选择和权力。

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

我不认为结束我的生命是错误的,因为我只是改变了我的住所,去了我妻子和孩子所在的地方。

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

我认为这本小说是一件没有社会价值的作品,除非它可以被回收作为一个纸箱。