It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

缺席之于爱情，犹如风之于火；它熄灭小火，却助长大火。

"We live in time—it holds us and moulds us—but I’ve never felt I understood it very well."

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

对人类同胞最大的罪恶不是憎恨，而是冷漠：那是不人道的本质。

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

There is a violence in being known, and a violence in remaining unknown.

经济学的目标是理解如何以最高效的方式分配稀缺资源。