Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

世界上最可靠的就是你自己。

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

"A verdadeira literatura não tem medo de enfrentar a realidade, por mais dura que seja."

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

I look back on the past, committed a felony little fool, I want to communicate with him and let him understand, but I can't do this, the boy would not see the, only my old trunk.

生产的最终条件是生产条件的再生产。