获诺贝尔文学奖的演说辞（2/2）

The roll on which y na has been scribed represents uch that is outstandgthe world’s literature of the eh tury.The judgnt of the Swedish Acadey is aepted as ipartial, authoritative and scere throughout the civilized world.I a proud but also awestruck at your decision to cde .I do hope you are right.I feel we are b a nsiderable risk, and that I do not deserve it.But I shall have no isgivgs if you have none.

Stion have events seed so harshly to dersonalities.Rarelyhistory have brutal facts so doated thought or has such a widespread dividual virtue found so di a llective foc.The fearful question nfronts : Have our probles got beyond our ntrol? Undoubtedly assg through a phase where this ay be so.Well ay we huble ourselves and seek fuidand rcy.

WeEurope and the western world who have pnned for health and social security, who have arveled at the triuphs of did sce, and who have aid at jtid freedo for all, have heless been witnesses of fae, isery, cruelty aru before which pale the deeds of Atti and Janghiz Khan.And we who, firstthe League of Nations and nowthe United Nations, have attepted to give an abidg foundation to the peace of whi have dread so long, have lived to see a world arred by cleavages and threatened by disrds even graver and ore violent than those whivulsed Europe after the fall of the Roan Epire.

It is upon this dark background that preciate the ajesty and hope which spired the ion of Alfred Nobel.He has left behd hi a bright and endurg bea of culture, of purpose, and of spiration to a geion which standssore his world-fao stitution pots a true path forto follow.Let , therefore, nfront the ctter and rigidity we see aroundwith tolerance, variety and cal.

The world looks with adiration and deed with fort to Sdavia, where three untries, without sacrificg their snty, live uheir thought,their enoic practice, andtheir healthy way of life.Fro such fountas new and brighter opportunities ay e to all ankd.These are, I believe, the sentts which ay ahose who the Nobel Foundatios to honor,the sure knowledge that they will th be respectg the ideals and wishes of its ilstrio founder.