米蘭·昆德拉
2020年獲得卡夫卡文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
消滅一個(gè)民族的第一步是抹去它的記憶。摧毀它的書籍、文化、歷史。然后讓某人寫新書，制造新文化，發(fā)明新歷史。不久之后，這個(gè)國(guó)家就會(huì)開始忘記它是什么以及它曾經(jīng)是什么。它周圍的世界會(huì)忘記得更快。
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
唯一能讓雙方都幸福的關(guān)系是沒有感傷主義的位置，雙方都不對(duì)對(duì)方的生活和自由提出任何要求的關(guān)系。
The unbearable lightness of being.
生命中不能承受之輕。
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
真理并不總是美麗的，美麗的話語也不總是真理。
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
成為作家并不意味著宣揚(yáng)真理，而是發(fā)現(xiàn)真理。
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
小說不是作者的自白；它是對(duì)人類生活在世界陷阱中的調(diào)查。
The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
緩慢的程度與記憶的強(qiáng)度成正比。速度的程度與遺忘的強(qiáng)度成正比。
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
人們想要成為未來的主人的唯一原因是為了改變過去。
生活在別處。
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.