过去是一个跟随我们的影子，永远存在，永远影响着我们的步伐。
The past is a shadow that follows us, always present, always influencing our steps.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
The world is a machine, and we are its broken parts.
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
舞蹈是身体的歌声。
——署名公告〈关于实行党纪的命令〉，提醒党员遵守党纪，1924年3月18日
We are all prisoners of our own minds, and it is only through self-reflection that we can break free.
