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。

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

当你阅读迷幻药文献时,所谓的天然迷幻药和人工合成迷幻药是有区别的。

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

所有的感知也是思考,所有的推理也是直觉,所有的观察也是发明。

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

我们的创造能力已经超过了我们明智地使用我们发明的产品的能力。

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

不要贪图享乐,除非你知道它下面没有鱼钩。

Literature precedes genre.

文学先于流派。