过去是一面镜子，我们在其中看到自己的倒影。

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

We are all living in a state of controlled chaos.

贫困和无知可能逐渐消失的希望，很大程度上源于十九世纪工人阶级的稳步进步。