译文：如果志向不坚毅，思想境界不开阔，沉溺于世俗私情，碌碌无为，永远混杂在平庸的人群之后，就会难免沦落到下流社会，成为没有教养，没有出息的人。

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

理解土地就是理解我们自己。

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

I don't believe in writer's block. I believe in writer's laziness.