Only when something of value to make the purpose of their lives have value.
只有在以某种有价值的东西做目的时，性命才有价值。
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
【译文】一辈子不做不应该做的事，世界上就不会有痛恨自己的人了。
每一部戏剧都是对逝去之物的葬礼。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.