他们从疯狂、绝望和欲望等经历中创作，目的是创造有效的艺术，而不是治愈自己。

Writing from experiences like madness, despair, and lust, their aim was to make effective art, not to cure themselves.

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当然这些活动还是有一些内涵的(一部电影就是艺术的结晶)，他们只是帮助我们从日常工作或者苦难中暂时解脱出来。

And while these each have other merits (a good film is a work of art), often they serve to distract us from work or other difficulties.

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500多年前，文艺复兴年代的艺术家和作者开创了批判，事实上，我从他们的身上学到了评价艺术的方式。

In fact I learned to see art in this way from the Renaissance artists and writers who founded criticism five centuries ago.

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And the butterfly does appear in just one moment, and it's during the tennis scene. As Humbert and Lolita play, there is one butterfly that flits between them. It's a mark of their equality as artists in that moment.

那蝴蝶曾经在短短的一瞬出现过，那是,在那个打网球的场景里，当亨伯特和洛丽塔打球的时候，一只,蝴蝶从他们中间飞过，它标志着他们在那个时刻是艺术家。

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