It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you.

这老生常谈的事，但你并不能支配艺术，是艺术在支配你。

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Its superficiality and banality could be interpreted as a critique of shopping.

它的肤浅和平庸可能被解释为一个购物的批判。

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Lu the banality of life during wartime: a soldier wakes up in the morning to see compatriots shooting prisoners, then rejoices in the afternoon when he drinks a bowl of red bean soup.

这些文字告诉陆川战争时的生活琐事：一个士兵早上醒来看见他的同胞射杀战俘，而在下午为喝了一碗红豆汤而欣喜不已。

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For him and everyone else, death is only a banality.

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Its images of death have a soothing banality, like a greeting-card message from the world beyond.

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Pirate cosplay allows people to escape the banality of work-a-day life, he said.

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