A painting is never finished, only abandoned.

La gloire ne peut être où la vertu n'est pas.

"Language is both a weapon and a wound; it depends on who holds the pen."

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

时间是个滑溜溜的东西：一旦失去控制，它的线索可能会永远从你手中溜走。

从事物的本质来看，权力必须制约权力。