Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在,那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品,而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

现实就是我们对它的诠释。想象和意志在这种解释中起了一定作用。这意味着所有的现实在某种程度上都是虚构的。

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

我们当中有谁没有感觉到,我们在纸上读到的人物,比站在我们身边的人更真实?

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

他知道我爱我的书,就从我自己的图书馆里给了我许多书,这些书比我的公爵领地还要珍贵。

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

既然我们注定要在思想的牢笼中度过一生,我们就有责任把它布置好。

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

没有必要太前卫,因为你有可能不被理解。

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

一旦你读了一本你喜欢的书,它的一部分就会一直伴随着你。

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

我从不画梦或噩梦。我描绘自己的现实。

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

规划城市是一项必要但有风险的工作。

Every man's memory is his private literature.

每个人的记忆都是他的私人文学。