如果你没有深陷其中，你怎么知道自己有多高？

The painter must give a completely accurate account of their experience of looking at the subject.

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass, and die.

国际政治是一项残酷而危险的事务，而且很可能继续保持这种状态。

Your work begins, work that will not be always joyful to you, labor that may not always fulfill you and days that will seem like one damn thing after the other.