He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

The past is a ghost that won’t stop haunting you.

Architecture is about finding the right balance between the specific and the universal.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well.

英明君主的官吏，宰相必定是从地方官中选拔的，猛将必定是从士兵中提拔的

"Exile is not just a physical state; it's a condition of the soul."