The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.
我们必须倾听土著知识——几个世纪以来,他们一直是森林的守护者。
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.