A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。
I studied literature design and fashion design.
我学习了文学设计和时装设计。
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
所有优秀的文学作品都主要依靠洞察力。
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.
我是一个文理双全的顽童。
Literature is what's left standing after the storm.
文学是风暴过后留下来的东西。
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
文学是苦役，是陷阱，是深深扎人的诅咒。
I think literature reveals more about us than history does.
我认为文学比历史更能揭示我们。
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
事实不是科学，正如字典不是文学一样。
Modern literature spurns moralizing in favor of demoralizing.
现代文学摒弃道德说教而倾向于道德败坏。
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
我是一个文学动物。对我来说，一切都以文学结束。
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。
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
随着生活变得越来越可怕，文学也变得越来越可怕。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Literature is the question minus the answer.
文学就是问题减去答案。
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。
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
其余的，称为文学，是人类愚蠢的卷宗，供未来的教授参考。
Every man's memory is his private literature.
每个人的记忆都是他的私人文学。
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
对于那些在远处观看的人来说，文学之乡是一片仙境，但是，就像其他所有的风景一样，走近一点，魅力就会消失，荆棘和荆棘就会显现出来。
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。