小说是一面镜子，反映了人类存在的复杂性。

艺术不在于你看到了什么，而在于你让别人看到了什么。

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The past is a foreign country, but we are all its citizens.