Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  • -- Boris Pasternak 鲍里斯·帕斯捷尔纳克

文学是一种艺术,它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西,用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

文学作品中到处都是一些人的残迹,他们对他人的观点持有超越理性的看法。

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

当我得到一点钱,我买书;如果还有剩余,我就买食物和衣服。

The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.

最好的感情是那些无法用语言来描述的感情。

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

我们的死亡与我们周围的言语成正比。

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

睡眠很好,他说,书更好。