The opera is a beautiful and irrational world. One could spend a lifetime listening and still not understand everything.

释义：船装载过重就会沉没，人欲望太强就会损害生命。劝诫人要节制自己的欲望。

最伟大的故事是那些揭示人类境遇的故事。

The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.