The best way to help someone is to empower them to help themselves.
These are the times that try men's souls.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the times.
写作就是记忆，记忆就是抵抗。
The novel is the most complete and complex expression of human experience.
不了解一个国家的文学，就无法理解这个国家的历史。
书籍是展示我们是谁的镜子。
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.