1. Chasing dreams is chasing one's own misfortune. On the street where sixpence was everywhere, he raised his head and saw the moonlight.

2. There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon.

3. What most people become is not the person they want to be, but the person they have to be.

4. Despicableness and greatness, viciousness and kindness, hatred and love can coexist in the same heart without being mutually exclusive.

5. In order to make the soul peaceful, a person should do two things he doesn't like every day.

6. God’s millstone turns very slowly, but it grinds it very finely.

7. Love takes up a lot of a person's energy. It requires a person to leave his own life and become a lover exclusively.

8. “Why do likeable women always marry idiots?” “Because smart men don’t marry likeable women.”

9 , Some people's chests are already stained with so many tears that I can't bear to spill mine anymore.

10. I didn’t understand at that time how contradictory human nature is, how much artificiality there is in sincerity, how much despicability there is in nobility, or how much virtue can be found even in evil.

11. Emotions have reasons that reason cannot understand at all.

12. Sometimes, people wear masks so perfectly that even they themselves think that in the process of wearing the mask, they actually become the same person as the mask.

Extended information:

"The Moon and Sixpence" is a novel created by the British novelist William Somerset Maugham, written in 1919.

The work is based on the life of French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. It describes an originally ordinary London stockbroker, Strickland, who suddenly became obsessed with art and abandoned his wife and children. He gave up what others thought was a prosperous and happy life, went to Tahiti in the South Pacific, wrote his own glorious life with a paintbrush, and injected all the value of life into the gorgeous canvas.

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