如果有人告诉你,他将做一个“很现实的决定”,你立刻就要明白,他已经打算好做错事了。
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
作家必须是一个异端,一个质疑所有绝对的人。
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
翻译:尺蠖弯曲身体是为了前进,龙蛇蛰伏是为了保存自己。
不义的人不能让他富裕,不义的人不能让他显贵,不义的人不能给他信任,不义的人不使他接近。
The world is a great symphony, and we are the notes.