There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.
没有比我们第一次巨大悲伤来临时的绝望更绝对的了,那时我们还不知道什么是经历过痛苦又被治愈,什么是绝望后又恢复。
一八一四年,俄、奥、普联军兵临巴黎城下,理工学校学生要求参战。后来,这句名言被刻在巴黎理工学校梯型大教室的天花板正中心,一直激励着该校师生奋发好学。
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
我们阅读是为了知道自己并不孤单。
Literature is the memory of humanity.
流放这件事想起来奇怪地引人入胜,但经历起来却很可怕。