朱利安·巴恩斯
以《終結的感覺》獲得布克獎
Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.
福樓拜認為不能用一種藝術形式解釋另一種，偉大的畫作無需言語解說。
Memory is identity... You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are.
記憶即身份…你即你所為；你所為存于記憶；你所記決定你是誰。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savor it. Art no more belongs to the people or the time than it belongs to the critics or the collectors.
藝術屬于所有人，也不屬于任何人。藝術屬于所有時代，也不屬于任何時代。藝術屬于創(chuàng)造它的人，也屬于品味它的人。藝術不屬于大眾或時代，正如它不屬于評論家或收藏家。
The longer life goes on, the fewer those around you to challenge your account of things, to remind you that life is not as you tell it, but as you remember it.
生命越延續(xù)，身邊質疑你敘事的人就越少，提醒你生活并非如你所講，而是如你所記的人也更少。
I don’t believe in God, but I miss Him.
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or they may set off a spark that will light the world.
你將兩個從未在一起的人組合在一起；有時世界因此改變，有時不會。他們可能墜毀燃燒，也可能迸發(fā)點亮世界的火花。
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t.
書籍會說：她這么做是因為。生活只會說：她這么做了。書會向你解釋；而生活不會。
"History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."
歷史不是過去。它是現(xiàn)在。我們帶著我們的歷史。我們就是我們的歷史。
"The longer you live, the more you realize that nothing is fixed, everyone will become a minority."
你活得越久，就越意識到?jīng)]有什么是固定的，每個人都會成為少數(shù)。
"Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see."
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