Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  • -- Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚伍尔夫

杰作不是孤独的诞生;它们是多年共同思考的产物,是由人的身体来思考的,使群众的经历是背后的单一的声音。

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

孤独在我们心中孕育着原始,孕育着陌生而危险的美——孕育着诗歌。但它也产生了相反的东西:反常的、非法的、荒谬的东西。

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

作者为一本书带来了什么并不重要,重要的是读者贡献了什么。

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

我出生和工作的时期可以说是令人羡慕的。

We live for books.

我们为书而生。