Critics love to generalize, to formulate trends into which all new work must be fitted, however contradictory.

评论家喜欢概括，归纳出所有新作品都必须符合的趋势，不管它们是如何地不符。

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And it’s Wright who remains the most contradictory of all, who continuously undermines his own ambitions, who falls in love with helpless finality and falls out of love with cool -indifference.

这就是赖特其人，他集各种矛盾个性于一身，他不断蚕食自己的事业抱负心，他不可挽救地陷入爱河，其后又将他的爱人冷酷或说是冷漠地抛弃掉。

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How could I love death? One can only write about it in contradictory ways.

我有多么爱死亡？一个人只能用一种矛盾的方式记叙这中感觉。

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Sure to be staple of crush-fueled mixtapes for as long as such a thing exists, "Much More Than That" feels contradictory in its very nature: It's a brilliantly expressed look at the way big love can't always be expressed brilliantly.

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