民主是一种生活方式，而不是一种政治手段。
We are all the sum of our contradictions.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
释义：天下大势总是分裂久了就会统一，统一久了就会分裂。
Every word in a novel is a step towards understanding the human condition.
