小说是对一个你无法确切表述的问题的长篇回答。
A novel is a long answer to a question you can’t quite formulate.
La joie de l'âme est dans l'action.
"The past is always present, it's just that sometimes it's more present than at other times."
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.
I don't want to be remembered for my fame. I want to be remembered for my passion.
如果你没有敌人，那你就已经死了。