Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. It exists; at most, it coexists.
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
你不等于那些不了解你的人的评论。
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.