Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  • -- Umberto Eco 乌姆贝托生态

每次我写小说的时候,我都至少有两年的时间确信这是最后一部,因为小说就像一个孩子。它在出生后两年。你必须照顾好它。它开始走路,然后说话。

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

大自然在每一个季节,每一次都赋予它自己一些美丽;从早到晚,就像从摇篮到坟墓一样,只是一连串的变化,如此轻柔而容易,我们几乎看不到它们的进展。

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

杰作不是孤独的诞生;它们是多年共同思考的产物,是由人的身体来思考的,使群众的经历是背后的单一的声音。

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

我们孤独地出生,孤独地生活,孤独地死去。只有通过我们的爱和友谊,我们才能制造出我们并不孤单的幻觉。

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

我冒昧地预言,摆在我们面前的将是一个痛苦而邪恶的时代。