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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

当涉及到制造恐怖时，人类的思维受到了足够的启发;只有当它试图创造一个天堂时，它才显得土里土气。

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

鉴于外部现实是虚构的，作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构，因为小说已经存在了。

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One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

机缘巧合要记住的一个方面是，你必须寻找一些东西才能找到其他的东西。

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

认为童贞是一种美德是人类思想中的迷信之一。

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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

想要发动战争的统治者非常清楚，他们必须找到或创造出第一个受害者。

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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

只有那些由疯狂激发、由理性书写的东西才是美丽的。

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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

我拿东西是因为我从中受到了启发。

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