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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

  • -- Eric Hobsbawm 埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆

没有过去的国家在某些方面是矛盾的。造就一个国家的是过去，证明一个国家反对其他国家的正当性的是过去，历史学家是创造历史的人。

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

的确，人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是，毫无疑问，这个世界产生于一种思想，这种思想往往是多样化的，有时是完全相反的，而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

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I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

我试着接近现实，接近矛盾。电影世界可以是一个真实的世界，而不是一个梦想的世界。

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

如果你想研究现代国家的社会和政治史，那就去研究地狱吧。

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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

历史学家讲述过去的故事，小说家讲述现在的故事。

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