A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

  • -- Mo Yan 莫言

作家应该对社会的阴暗面和人性的丑恶表达批评和愤慨,但不能用一种统一的表达方式。

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

也许没有一种现象比道德上的愤怒包含更多的破坏性情感,道德上的愤怒允许嫉妒,或者在美德的伪装下表现出来。

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

我丑陋地坐在膝盖上,几乎立刻就厌倦了。

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

愤怒是我们思想的屈服,而不是欲望的屈服。

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

丑之所以在某种程度上优于美,是因为它经久不衰。