最好的领导者是那些倾听多于说话的人。

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The novel is the great lie that reveals the great truths.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

激情就像疾病：越是与之斗争，它们就越强大。

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.