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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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

文学的功能,通过它所有的变异,一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性,以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说,文学是颠覆性的。

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

友谊的真正考验是:你真的不能对对方什么都不做吗?你能享受生活中那些完全简单的时刻吗?

The great danger in modern literature is that it would have us accept as a description of reality, what is actually an interpretation of it.

现代文学最大的危险在于,它会让我们接受对现实的描述,也就是对现实的解释。

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

如果我在沉睡了一千年后醒来,我的第一个问题将是:黎曼假说是否得到了证实?

Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

文学不是关于完美的人,而是关于缺陷,非常真实和深刻的人类缺陷。

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

如果我们不能消灭这个国家的文学,我们至少可以阻止它从外部进入。