The past is not dead, it is not even past.
也许每一天并不都是好的，但每一天都有一些好的东西。
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
小说是一张不存在之地的地图，但感觉真实。
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
