Money is concerned only with what is common to all: it asks for the exchange value, it reduces all quality and individuality to the question: How much?

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

写作是一种质疑世界的方式，试图理解它。

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.