To be a writer is to be a perpetual outsider, always observing, never quite belonging.
作为一个作家,就是永远的外人,总是在观察,却从未真正属于。
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
The freedom then of man, and liberty of acting according to his own will, is grounded on his having reason, which is able to instruct him in that law he is to govern himself by, and make him know how far he is left to the freedom of his own will.