She says that she has read a little bit of Kafka and "doesn't know what to make of him, but it makes you a bolder writer."

她说她读一点点卡夫卡的作品,而且“不知道是什么造就了卡夫卡，但这可以让自己成为,一个更大胆的作家“

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From reading of such books," Hobbes continues, "men have undertaken to kill their kings because the Greek and Latin writers in their books and discourses of policy make it lawful and laudable for any man to do so provided before he do it he call him a tyrant."

正是因为这些阅读，他们意识到他们可以弑杀他们的君王,因为希腊和拉丁作家们,在他们的书籍和演讲中宣称,任何人都可以合法地弑杀他们的暴君,而且他们的此举也将是值得赞赏的“

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