With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

  • -- Peter Abrahams 彼得·阿伯拉罕姆斯

有了莎士比亚和诗歌,一个新世界诞生了。新的梦想,新的欲望,一种自我意识诞生了。我想通过这些书所设定的新标准来了解自己。

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

这是一种奇特的感觉,一种双重意识,一种总是通过别人的眼睛来审视自己的感觉,一种用一根带子来衡量自己的灵魂的感觉,而这个带子上的世界却以一种嘲弄的轻蔑和怜悯的眼光看着我们。

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

人们追求美,是为了使它受到玷污;不是为了它自己,而是为了肯定要亵渎它而带来的快乐。

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

你不可能指望你的写作能把别人的注意力从你身上移开,除非你的写作已经完成了。

The flower of consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

意识之花需要它生长的泥土。

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

每个人都是一本血书;无论我们开在哪里,我们都是红色的。

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

每一次危机都会给你带来额外的动力。