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Philosophical theory
There were sixpence everywhere, but he looked up at the moon.
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What most people become is not what they want to be, but what they must be.
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Mean and great, vicious and kind, hate and love can be mutually exclusive and exist in the same heart.
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In order to calm the soul, a person has to do two things he doesn't like every day.
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"Why do attractive women always marry stupid people?" "Because intelligent men don't marry attractive women,
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For example, women and love
God's millstone turns slowly, but it grinds very finely.
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Love takes up a great deal of energy. Being a lover requires a person to leave his life.
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Feelings have reasons that reason can't understand at all.
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Feeling, emotion, philosophy and love
Some people have too many tears in their chests, and I can't bear to spill my tears again.
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Writers are more concerned with understanding human nature than judging it.
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Only poets and saints can firmly believe that hard watering on asphalt pavement will cultivate lilies.
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The devil can always quote the Bible when he wants to do something bad.
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Telling stories about disasters quickly gets boring, and people don't want to see sad eyes.
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Most people are what they want to be, not what they have to be.
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I didn't know how contradictory human nature was at that time. I don't know how much affectation is contained in sincerity, how much meanness is contained in nobility, and even virtue can be found in evil.
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Sometimes, people wear masks so seamlessly that even they feel that in the process of wearing masks, they actually become the same people as masks.
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Generally speaking, love is just an episode for men and one of many things in daily life, but the novel exaggerates love, gives it an important position and violates the authenticity of life. Although a few men in the world regard love as a top priority, these people are often boring people. Even a woman who is infinitely interested in love has a low opinion of such a man. Women will be attracted by such men and flattered by them, but they will inevitably feel uneasy-these people are poor creatures, and even during their short love, men are constantly doing other things to distract themselves: making a living attracts their attention; They are addicted to sports activities; They may also be interested in art. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can fall in love all day and all night, while men can only do so at some time at noon.
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I told you I had to draw. I couldn't help myself. If a person falls into the water, it doesn't matter whether he swims well or not. Anyway, he must struggle out, or he will drown. . . .
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She has never had any feelings for her husband. I used to think that she loved Stroeve, but it was actually a natural reaction caused by a man's caress and comfort in life. Most women regard this reaction as love. This is a passive feeling, which can be produced to anyone, just like a vine can be attached to any tree, because this feeling can make a girl marry any man who needs her, and I believe that over time she will have love for this person. It's just a sense of satisfaction with a guaranteed life, a sense of pride in owning family assets, a sense of complacency for people who need themselves, and a sense of complacency for building their own family. Women are kind-hearted and vain, so they think this kind of feeling is full of spiritual value, but in the face of impulsive enthusiasm, this kind of feeling is defenseless.
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