A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.

【译文】冰与炭不能长久共存，寒与暑不会同时到来。

What we see is not simply given but actively constructed through complex processes.

文化是组织的灵魂。

成功来自于正确的心态、正确的态度和正确的准备。

One has to pay dearly for immortality；one has to die several times while still alive.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity of the real world” is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.