生活就像在博物馆里走过场,要过一阵子你才开始吸收你的所见,思考它们,读书了解它们,记忆它们——因为你不能一下子全部消化。
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it in all at once.
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
"A life without reflection is a life half-lived."