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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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

我的心在我里面因忿怒和悲哀烧着。我们想不出别的了。整个晚上,我们只睡了一小会儿,醒来时总是感到非常震惊和悲伤。每个人的感觉都一样。我从未见过如此普遍的感觉。

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。

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

一个丑陋的婴儿是一个非常讨厌的东西——而最漂亮的婴儿是可怕的。

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

社会可能会被埋藏在地下的丑陋所压垮。