Literature is the question minus the answer.

  • -- Roland Barthes 罗兰·巴特斯

文学就是问题减去答案。

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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

伟大的文学作品应该对读者有一些好处:它必须使读者的感知速度加快,使他们的辨别能力增强,使他们的个人见解更加成熟。

They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.

他们相信,就像你自己一样,如果你还有选择的余地,那只是时间和形式的问题,何时以及如何发表解放宣言。

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

一旦你有了孩子,那就是无尽的爱。毫无疑问,你会在一瞬间为他们而死。你怎么能做得更好呢?

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

科学和文学不是两个东西,而是同一事物的两个方面。

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

随着生活变得越来越可怕,文学也变得越来越可怕。

I think literature reveals more about us than history does.

我认为文学比历史更能揭示我们。