The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

  • -- George Henry Lewes 乔治·亨利·路易斯

文学的目的是教育、使人生气或使人娱乐。

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If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

如果孩子没有一个可以让他自己玩的东西,他就会感到无聊;因为它还不知道怎样用自己来充实自己。

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

我无法想象一个奖赏和惩罚他所创造的对象的上帝,他只是人类弱点的反映。

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。

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

文学上的拖沓会使我紧张。