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文学
Literature
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
但我也认为所有伟大的文学故事都是关于孤独的。有时候是因为心碎，有时候是因为不公，有时候是因为命运。有无数种方法可以检验它。
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
我的书根据书店的不同摆放在不同的地方。有时他们可以在神秘的部分找到，有时在幽默部门，有时甚至在文学通道，这是有点惊人的。
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
文学的功能，通过它所有的变异，一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性，以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说，文学是颠覆性的。
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
我要写的是我要说的最后一句话。我想说，文学是我们唯一拥有的意识，它作为意识的角色必须告诉我们，我们有能力理解核能的可怕危险。
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
我们不应该迷恋文学，不喜欢抽象的讨论，不喜欢纯粹的知识理论，从而诱使我们献身于我们同胞中被压迫的、受压迫的、受侮辱的和受伤害的人民的事业。
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
在过去的四五百年里，欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品，这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕，用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
文学史上最著名的，也是最难理解的事实之一是，至少在西欧文学中，散文式小说很晚才出现，而在两种伟大的古典语言中，我们所谓的散文式小说却相对缺乏。
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
现在，我想我应该知道他一直都是有魔力的。我知道这一点，但我早该猜到，要和我一起变老，看着我们的孩子一起长大，对我的要求会太高。所以现在，他是一个传奇，当他宁愿成为一个男人。
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Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
文学帮助我们超越自我。
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
每个人的工作，无论是文学、音乐、绘画还是其他任何工作，都是自己的一幅画像，他越想隐藏自己，他的性格就越会在不顾自己的情况下清晰地显现出来。
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
文学是陈词滥调的编曲。
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
文学是一种需要拥有的力量，而不是一堆需要研究的对象。
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞，与你争竞的，岂不是给你大教训吗?
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
艺术和文学的支柱，就像战争的支柱一样，是金钱。