文学是燃烧在灵魂中的火焰，照亮我们存在的最黑暗角落。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

【译文】三个人在一起走路，其中一定有可以作为我老师的人。选择他的优点向他学习，对于他的缺点，就反省自己加以改正。

"Language is the bridge between the soul and the world, and literature is the art of crossing that bridge."