"A story is not a line; it is a web."

世界是事实的总体，而不是事物的总体。

诗人的话语是他们灵魂的回声。

"The difference between a happy marriage and a miserable one... consists of about ten continued acts of stupidity or kindness, depending on the direction."

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.