我们不是从祖先那里继承了土地；我们是从子孙那里借来的。
We don't inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Life is a series of small dramas, played out in the shadow of larger ones.
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.