A novel is not written to give answers but to ask the right questions.
小说的写作不是为了给出答案,而是为了提出正确的问题。
过去从未死去;它甚至不曾过去。
The past is not just the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.