History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.

所谓的理解，往往不过是误解的广泛流传。

唱歌让我找到了内心的平静。

He said that the way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.