It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

-- William Ernest Henley 威廉姆·恩内斯特·亨里

艺术家的职责不是复制，而是综合:从作为他原材料的现实的混乱中消除任何偶然的、空闲的、无关紧要的东西，并选择只有恰当的和不朽的东西来永存。

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When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

当我开始把那些从财务角度看是不可能的职业和那些我不愿意从事的职业从清单上删除时，什么也没有留下。

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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

逻辑是哲学的最后科学成分;它的提取只留下一堆非科学的、伪的问题。

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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

她善于玩抽象的困惑，就像侏儒善于变矮一样。

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