文学抱负不是消遣,不是体育,不是茶余饭后玩乐的高雅游戏。它是一种专心致志、具有排他性的献身,是一件压倒一切的大事,是一种自由选择的奴隶制——让它的牺牲者(心甘情愿的牺牲者)变成奴隶。如同我和那位在巴黎的朋友一样,文学变成了一项长期的活动,成为某种占据了生存的东西。它除了超出用于写作的时间之外,还渗透到其他所有事情之中,因为文学抱负是以作家的生命 Literary aspirations are not pastime, not sport, not elegant play after gossip. It is a devoted and exclusive dedication. It is an overriding event. It is a freely chosen slavery, with its sacrificial beings (willing sacrifices) turned into slaves. Like myself and my friend in Paris, literature has become a long-term activity that has become something of a living existence. Apart from exceeding the time for writing, it infiltrates into everything else because literary aspirations are based on the life of the writer