过去是一个异国他乡；他们在那里做事的方式不同。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
真相很少纯粹，也绝不简单。
史记
The past is not lost; it is encoded within us.
The metropolis exacts from man as a discriminating creature a different amount of consciousness than does rural life.
人心的差异，就像人的面孔一样各不相同。