The six most classic sentences of The Moon and Sixpence are:

1. As a person who falls in love, the difference between men and women is: women can be happy all day long. Falling in love at night, but men can only do this kind of thing sometimes and for a long time.

2. Let us seek the love of those who are simple and honest. Their ignorance is far more valuable than our knowledge.

3. What you have to overcome is your vanity and your desire to show off. What you have to deal with is your cleverness that always wants to rush out and be in the limelight.

4. Some people say that disasters and misfortunes can make human nature noble. This is not true; sometimes it is happiness that makes people behave noblely. Disasters and misfortunes in most cases can only make people become ungrateful. Become more petty-minded and vengeful.

5. I don’t know how much of sincerity is posturing, how much of nobility comes from despicability, and how much of depravity is holiness.

6. Most people are not the kind of people they want to be, but the kind of people they have to be.