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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  • -- Thomas Edward Brown 托马斯·爱德华·布朗

文学是我向同胞们举起镜子的召唤，这对我来说很自然;在开放的发明领域，我并不是没有希望给他们带来快乐。

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

如果明天我的世界坍塌，我会回顾所有的快乐、兴奋和我有幸拥有的价值。不是悲伤，不是流产，也不是父亲离家出走，而是其他一切的快乐。这就够了。

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I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

我的意思是，我可以非常高兴地回顾在苏丹发生的事情，以及我们对以这种方式受到迫害的人民所作的承诺。

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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

我说我没有发明的能力。我也没有模仿的能力。

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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

不要要求生活在宁静的时代。那里没有文学。

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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

命运是懦夫和逆来顺受者的发明。

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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

我是一个文理双全的顽童。

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