真相比小说更加荒诞，因为虚构是在一定逻辑下进行的，而现实往往毫无逻辑可言。

保守主义始于一种所有成熟人都能轻易共鸣的情感：美好的事物容易被摧毁，却不易被创造。

我们相信建筑应该植根于其所在的地方，与景观和居住其中的人们相连。

——〈上李鸿章书〉，1894年1月

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.