If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

这是《鬼吹灯》系列的核心概念，意指在古墓中点燃蜡烛以判断是否有鬼魂存在。

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

独裁和真正的文学不能共存。一个必须死亡，另一个才能生存。

Hard work, under the old system, meant long hours, little rest, and poor pay. Under the new system, it means a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

正义不是目的地，而是一段旅程。