历史不是发生过的事,历史只是历史学家告诉我们的故事。
"History is not what happened. History is just what historians tell us."
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."
每一本书都是一次旅程,每一次旅程都是一本书。
整个人生就像看电影。只是你总是在影片开始十分钟后才进场,而且没人告诉你剧情,所以你必须自己从线索中拼凑出来。
Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.