The beauty of cinema is that it allows us to live multiple lives.

当下总是在变，但过去是固定的。

一本好书是我生命中的一个事件。

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most political part of the human personality because it is what drives people to want to be recognized as superior to others.

最激进的建筑往往是最简单的。

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

The worth of a state， in the long run， is the worth of the individuals composing it.

从未经历过痛苦，也就从未被赐福。