"History is the echo of voices we can no longer hear."
历史是我们再也听不到的声音的回响。
"The dead are the only ones who truly know us."
"We are all translators of our own lives."
我们都是自己生活的翻译者。
"Silence is the language of the unspeakable."
沉默是不可言说之物的语言。
"The past is not a place but a condition."
过去不是一个地方，而是一种状态。
"The stories we tell ourselves are the ones that shape us."
"To live is to be followed by shadows."
"The past is a country we can never return to, but whose borders we are always crossing."
过去是一个我们永远无法返回的国家，但它的边界我们总是在跨越。
"A book is a conversation with the dead."
"The present is just the past with a different disguise."