Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.
福楼拜认为不能用一种艺术形式解释另一种，伟大的画作无需言语解说。
Memory is identity... You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are.
记忆即身份…你即你所为；你所为存于记忆；你所记决定你是谁。
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.
艺术属于所有人，也不属于任何人。艺术属于所有时代，也不属于任何时代。艺术属于创造它的人，也属于品味它的人。艺术不属于大众或时代，正如它不属于评论家或收藏家。
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.
生命越延续，身边质疑你叙事的人就越少，提醒你生活并非如你所讲，而是如你所记的人也更少。
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.
你将两个从未在一起的人组合在一起；有时世界因此改变，有时不会。他们可能坠毁燃烧，也可能迸发点亮世界的火花。
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.
书籍会说：她这么做是因为。生活只会说：她这么做了。书会向你解释；而生活不会。
"History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."
历史不是过去。它是现在。我们带着我们的历史。我们就是我们的历史。
"The longer you live, the more you realize that nothing is fixed, everyone will become a minority."
你活得越久，就越意识到没有什么是固定的，每个人都会成为少数。
"Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see."
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