要享受自由,我们必须控制自己。
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
谋杀一个幻影比谋杀现实要困难得多。
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
世界的美有两面,一面是欢笑,一面是痛苦,将心割裂。
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
那个写了那么多诗却不署名的“佚名”,往往是个女人。
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
作为一个女人,我没有国家。作为一个女人,我不需要国家。作为一个女人,我的国家就是整个世界。
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
生活不是一排对称的马车灯;生活是一个光晕,一个半透明的外壳,从意识的开始到结束都包围着我们。
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
小说就像蜘蛛网,或许连接得很轻,但仍然在四个角落都与生活相连。
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
他人的目光是我们的牢笼;他们的想法是我们的囚笼。
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
如果你不能诚实地面对自己,你也就无法诚实地面对他人。
书籍是灵魂的镜子。
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.