The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
消灭一个民族的第一步是抹去它的记忆。摧毁它的书籍，它的文化，它的历史。然后让某人写新书，制造新文化，发明新历史。不久之后，这个民族就会开始忘记它是什么以及它曾经是什么。
文学不是现实的镜子，而是通向可能性的窗户。
翻译：锋芒毕露易遭嫉，把聪明藏在质朴中，以隐忍换发展，是人生的进阶之道。
天才们是流星，燃烧以照亮所在的世纪。
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its students.
