The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

过去不仅仅是过去，而是主体过滤自己不断变化的自我形象的棱镜。

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin 古德温