The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

La verdadera literatura no tiene fronteras, ni geográficas ni temporales.

人生最大的幸福是确信我们被人爱着；因为自己而被爱，或者更确切地说，尽管自己而被爱。