And there's this Flaubert quote that I love: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
引用一句我所钟爱的Flaubert的话， “我一直尝试着住在一座象牙塔里， 但是一股胡说八道的言论在敲打它的墙壁， 威胁着要破坏它。”