Essayists & Critics

“The largest part of what we call "personality" is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”

“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.”

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.”

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.”

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

“I closed my eyes and let the sick feeling wash over me, and then I began to feel better.”

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”

“希望本是无所谓有，无所谓无的。这正如地上的路；其实地上本没有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。”

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

“Je ne comprends pas; je m'arrête; j'examine.”

“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”

“万头攒动火树银花之处不必找我。如欲相见，我在各种悲喜交集处。”

“Do not look for me where crowds surge and fireworks blaze. If you wish to find me, I am where all sorrows and joys converge.”

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown.”

“一个人至少拥有一个梦想，有一个理由去坚强。心若没有栖息的地方，到哪里都是在流浪。”

“A person must have at least one dream, one reason to be strong. If the heart has no place to rest, wherever you go is wandering.”

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”

“The struggle is really all I have. The struggle is really all any of us have because the question is whether you are going to go forward.”

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”

“一个人只拥有此生此世是不够的，他还应该拥有诗意的世界。”

“Having only this life and this world is not enough; one should also have a poetic world.”