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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

寓言的寓意是永恒的。故事的寓意对故事来说是暂时的。

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When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

当你对一个故事有一个想法时，你希望这些角色能够接触到尽可能多的人。我想你通常认为散文是一种方式。它符合我们的时代和文化。

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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

因此，仅仅拥有奴隶本身并没有任何道德品质，就像为人父母、雇主或统治者一样。

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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

地狱和永恒的惩罚是人类头脑中最荒谬、最令人不快的想法。

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

现代性意味着短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的，艺术的一半是永恒的，另一半是不可改变的。

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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

最痛苦的道德斗争不是善恶之间的斗争，而是善与恶之间的斗争。

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What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

哪个作家愿意在故事中妥协?故事是你参与其中的唯一原因。

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