The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

  • -- Giacomo Casanova 贾科莫·卡萨诺瓦

读过这些回忆录的人会发现,在我的眼前,我从来没有一个固定的目标,我的系统,如果可以称为一个系统的话,就是随波逐流,随波逐流。

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I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

当我写小说时,我有了更多的自由,但我的回忆录对我的读者产生了更大的影响。不知何故,“信息”,即使我甚至不知道有一个,以这种形式更好地传达。

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

我认为如果一本书有能力感动读者,它也有能力冒犯读者。你希望你的书有力量,所以你必须接受随之而来的。

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

什么读者希望被告知罢工的态度?

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

回忆录是历史的阶梯。