There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
人们不会问一个受苦的人:你的国家是什么?你的宗教是什么?人们只会说:你在受苦,这对我来说就足够了。
世界和生命是一体的。
The most beautiful things in life are not things, they're moments.