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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
我们学过阿克顿勋爵的格言:所有的权力都腐败，绝对的权力绝对腐败。当我开始写这些书的时候，我相信这一点，但现在我不再相信这一点了。权力并不总是腐败的。权力可以净化。我相信关于权力总是正确的是权力总是揭示。
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
在新闻界，只有一个事实是错误的偏见，整个工作。相反，在小说中，只有一个事实是真实的，这就赋予了整部作品合法性。这是唯一的区别，它在于作者的承诺。小说家能做任何他想做的事，只要他能使人们相信它。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
真爱就像鬼，人人都在谈论，却很少有人见过。
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
没有什么是真的，一切都是允许的。
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
只要让小孩子受苦，这个世界上就没有真爱。
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
让梦想成真的最好方法就是醒来。
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
即使是一个真正的艺术家也不总是能创造艺术。
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
人们常说，诗歌是人生的一面真实的镜子。但是，一只猴子在研究一部文学作品时，却找不到苏格拉底。