One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
家不是你出生的地方;家是你所有逃离尝试停止的地方。
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
《盐铁论·轻重》茂密的树林下面没有旺盛的青草;在没有平整的地里,长不出好的禾苗。比喻在强大的势力下,弱者会受到压制和侵害。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
股市在短期内是投票机,在长期内是称重机。