拿破仑在征俄惨败时如此说。
小说是一种永远处于危机中、濒临消失边缘的艺术形式，而这正是它保持生命力的原因。
Sustainability must be at the core of every stone we extract, or we extract nothing at all.
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.