A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文学
Literature
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
一个不能写诗的时代，除了颓废者的聪明才智之外，什么文学也不能写。
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
对于人类真正的艺术家来说，所谓的不礼貌往往是最生动和最重要的。
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
所有糟糕的文学作品都建立在不完善的洞察力或模仿的基础上，而模仿可以被定义为“二手的”。
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
文学同时以错误和真理的形式存在;它既背叛又服从自己的存在方式。
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
在任何情况下，文学都是由与人类接触的良知对法律机构提出的挑战。
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
没有神话知识，我们自己语言的许多高雅文学作品就无法被理解和欣赏。
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
归根结底，文学不过是木工活。你们都在与现实打交道，一种和木头一样坚硬的材料。
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
想想一个人只要用笔在纸上写下一段漂亮的纱线，就能做出如此惊人的成就，真是令人惊讶。
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
在文学上还有一个伟大的发现，那就是按文学工作者不写作的数量支付报酬。
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
因为神话是文学的使女;而文学是美德和幸福的最好盟友之一。
Literature...is lonely and waited for, brilliant and pure and frightened, a marriage of birds, a conversation of the blind.
文学……孤独与等待，灿烂与纯洁与恐惧，一场鸟的婚礼，一场盲人的对话。
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
文学让你进入另一种精神世界。同理心的产生必然会影响你对他人的行为。
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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。
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。
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
文学可以提醒我们，并非所有的人生都已被记录下来:还有那么多故事等着我们去讲述。
Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".
科学一开始就不稳定。神话首先与“起初”发生的事情有关。它的签名是“从前”。
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
不幸的是，许多不真诚的文学和艺术，仅仅是为了达到目的而进行的，是通过欺骗公众而成功的。