过去总是紧张，未来才是完美。
A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
一本好书应该让你在读完时感到些许疲惫。在阅读时，你经历了多个生命。
The most important political development of the modern era is the rise of the modern state.
"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like a camera or a tape recorder, it reconstructs things, it edits the past with the scissors of the present."
