What is uttered is finished and done with.
说出口的,就是结束且完成的。
The mystery of creativity is like the mystery of freedom.
创造力的奥秘如同自由的奥秘。
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
一个人的死亡,与其说是他自己的事,不如说是生者的事。
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
时间没有分界线来标记它的流逝,从不会有雷暴或号角声宣告新的月份或年份的开始。
The artist is the brother of the criminal and the madman.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
思考死亡的唯一宗教方式,是将其视为生命的一部分。
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.
伟大的真理,其反面同样是伟大的真理。
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of German ideas.
我们所谓的国家社会主义,是对德国理念的有毒扭曲。
The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, and the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
作家的快乐在于思想能化作情感,而情感能完全化作思想。