每一次创造行为首先都是破坏行为。

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

人类能够达到的最高活动是为了理解而学习，因为理解就是自由。

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.