Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文學(xué)是發(fā)現(xiàn)普通人身上非凡之處的藝術(shù)，用普通的語言表達(dá)非凡的內(nèi)容。
Time is a river that flows backward as much as it flows forward.
"To write is to walk on the edge of the unspeakable."
時間沒有分界線來標(biāo)記它的流逝，從不會有雷暴或號角聲宣告新的月份或年份的開始。
La vertu ne peut aller sans la liberté.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."