To write is to live, to live is to write.

过去从未死去，它甚至从未过去。

He said that the way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.