The novel is a mirror walking down the road.
小说是一面走在路上的镜子。
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. One must die for the other to survive.
独裁和真正的文学不能共存。一个必须死亡，另一个才能生存。
Literature is the only way to run away without leaving home.
文学是唯一一种不用离家就能逃离的方式。
The writer’s duty is to tell the terrible truth, and it is the reader’s duty to learn from it.
作家的职责是讲述可怕的真相，而读者的职责是从中学习。
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.