To write is to resist. To resist is to write.
写作就是抵抗。抵抗就是写作。
The worst prison is not the one with walls and bars, but the one in our minds.
最糟糕的监狱不是有墙和栏杆的监狱,而是我们思想中的监狱。
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.
书是一面镜子:如果一只猿猴往里看,使徒不太可能往外看。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
真相就像太阳。你可以暂时挡住它,但它不会消失。
The dream of every dictator is to turn his country into a prison without walls.
每个独裁者的梦想都是把他的国家变成一个没有围墙的监狱。
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
独裁和真正的文学是不相容的。作家是独裁的天敌。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
唯一真正的监狱是恐惧,唯一真正的自由是从恐惧中解脱。
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
知识最大的敌人不是无知,而是知识的幻觉。
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it.
成为诗人意味着拥有一个如此敏锐的灵魂,以至于没有任何品质的细微差别能逃过它的察觉。