History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us.
文学研究归根结底是对人性的研究
I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.
Reason is， and ought only to be the slave of the passions， and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Beauty emerges from function, not the other way around.