A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
文学的目的是教育、使人生气或使人娱乐。
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
一个真正伟大的图书馆包含了一些冒犯所有人的东西。
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
文学既是社会进步的原因，又是社会进步的结果。
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
不要要求生活在宁静的时代。那里没有文学。
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
首先，文学只指它自己，文学理论。
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
当文学一半是贸易，一半是艺术时，它才最繁荣。
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
我不喜欢高级文学，但我认为我所有的书都是文学作品。
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
古希腊文学名著中很少有易于阅读的。
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
书籍是文学的金钱，但只是科学的计数器。
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
你从文学作品中得到的答案取决于你提出的问题。
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
科学和文学不是两个东西，而是同一事物的两个方面。
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
文学传递着世界内外的信息。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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?
Every man's memory is his private literature.
每个人的记忆都是他的私人文学。
The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.
“无意识幽默”是我对当代文学的贡献之一。