The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

A picture must be a thing in itself, not a representation of something else.

你知道得越多，就越意识到自己知道得多么少。

Optimism is a learned skill.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him.