A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
说到底，作家只是他书的一半。另一半是读者，作家从读者那里学习。
The past is always constructed from the present.
The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.
作家的生活绝对是孤独的。他必须独自完成工作。
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
The world is always in movement.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.
人并非生来就是自己。人出生时背负着一大堆期望，一大堆别人的想法。
The history of the world is the history of the few.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
如果一个作家不能激起敌意，那他就已经死了。
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
The history of men is the history of their crimes.
人类的历史就是他们罪行的历史。
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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