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简洁
Brevity
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
短篇小说消耗你更快。它们与简洁有关。在短篇小说中，你面对的是死亡。我知道他们作为一种形式是多么的艰难，但他们也是一种完全的快乐。
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感，把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸，我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.
考虑到我们在这里的时间很短，我们人类似乎也只能对事物的形状、某些事件的重要性以及“好”与“坏”运气的区别有一个狭隘的理解。
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
当像塔西佗一样，一个人有话要说时，简短地说几句话并不是什么伟大的艺术;然而，当一个人无话可说，却照样写了一整本书，把真相变成了一个说谎者——我称之为一种成就。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
什么是警句?一个矮小的整体。它的身体简洁，它的灵魂机智。
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
我花了六七年的时间写一些非常小的书。有一种简洁的美学。
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
我努力简洁，但我变得晦涩。