"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
我们会死。那可能是生命的意义。但我们创造语言。那可能是衡量我们生命的标准。
The historian's first duty is to tell the truth as he sees it, regardless of whom it pleases or displeases.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
——在柏林墙演说