And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

他们写了无数的书;太骄傲、太分散、不能缄默。各人追求自己的高升、躲避自己的空虚。

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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

写作的矛盾在于,它既可以被看作是一种行为,也可以被看作是一种解释过程,一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此,它既肯定又否定自己的本性。

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

一本空书就像一个婴儿的灵魂,里面可以写任何东西。它能容纳一切,却什么也不包含。我想让这一切充满有益的奇迹。

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.

在沉默的态度中,灵魂会在更清晰的光线中找到道路,而那些难以捉摸和欺骗的东西,会分解成晶莹剔透的清晰。

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

有人说,如果你有话要说,写作就会变得更容易。

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

你读完的一本书和你读之前的那本书不一样。

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

现在,除了沉默,我所有的老师都死了。