The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

道德家是这样的人:当人们还觉得自己很自私,而他的努力总是毫无结果时,他却告诉人们应该无私。

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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

昨日的道德已不复存在。他们和活着的时候一样死了。经济独立使妇女与男子处于完全相同的地位。

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

一部小说如果没有揭示迄今为止未知的存在片段,就是不道德的。知识是小说唯一的道德。