Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

其他任何一位作家都渴望得到赞扬;词典编纂者只能希望逃脱指责。

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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

我相信我的直觉能找到主题,我凭直觉写作。我有一个想法,当我开始,我有一个形状;但只有在几年之后,我才能完全理解我所写的东西。

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

我认为,孩子们常常被要求在有话要说之前就开始写作。教他们用自我压抑的方式思考、阅读和交谈,他们会写作,因为他们无法控制自己。

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

我认为,夫妻之间持久、忠诚的爱,连同抚养孩子,是任何人都能渴望的最高尚的行为。它没有写太多。

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

人的形体比天使的形体高;在所有的形式中,它是最高的。人在创造中是最高的存在,因为他渴望自由。