被大胆说出的预言，从来不会被迷信的人认为是愚笨无趣的。

The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.

"In the silence of the night, the whispers of the past become the loudest."

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life.

States are inherently aggressive and expansionist because they exist in an anarchic international system where there is no higher authority to keep them in check.