Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

在独处中，我们发现自己的存在已经足够。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.