"The past is a puzzle, and the historian is the person who tries to put the pieces together."

"Literature is the mirror of society."

The body remembers what the mind tries to forget.

我们知道的越多，就越意识到自己知道的多么少。

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

其他人真的像她一样活着吗？……如果答案是肯定的，那么这个世界，这个社会世界，就显得难以承受地复杂：二十亿人的声音，每个人的思想都同样重要，每个人对生命的追求都极为强烈，每个人都认为自己独一无二，而实际上没有人是独一无二的。在这样的世界里，人会被自己的渺小感淹没。