History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
文学是时间的见证，记录着人类的情感和思想。
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
译文：种植橘柚，吃起来是甜的，闻起来是香的；种植枳棘，长大了却会刺人。所以君子要谨慎地选择所要培养的人才。
我们不是从祖先那里继承了地球；我们是从子孙那里借来的。