Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

解析：菩提比喻智慧，明镜比喻清净心。本来清净，又哪里会染上什么尘埃？

文学是一种抵抗的形式，一种反抗遗忘的行为。

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance the interests of the nation.