I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend to remember."
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
长期习惯于不认为某件事是错的,会给人一种表面上的正确性。
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.