Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

  • -- Barbara Kingsolver 芭芭拉?金索佛

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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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

值得怀疑的是,人类是否最感激那些像培根和巴特勒那样从文学宝库中挖掘黄金的人,还是最感激那些像佩利那样净化它、盖章、确定它的真正价值并赋予它货币和效用的人。

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

那么,网络,或者图案,一个既感性又有逻辑性的网络,一个优雅而富有内涵的结构:那就是风格,那是文学艺术的基础。