1. We pass through dreams awake: we ourselves are just a ghost of the past years.
2. You are the problem, there is no need to look around for any knowledge.
3. Happiness does not depend on possessions. Happiness is just a matter of orientation. This means that happy people cannot see the dark edges of reality.
4. There is no possession, only existence. There is only an existence that pursues the last breath and suffocation.
5. Disease is not an evil at all, but a warning signal and an assistant in life.
6. I can never get enough heat, so I burn - burn to ashes from the cold.
7. In theory, there is a kind of perfect happiness that may exist: one who deeply believes in the indestructible element within a person, but does not pursue it persistently.
8. You don’t know how much power silence contains. Aggressive aggression is just an illusion, a ruse that people often use to hide their shortcomings from themselves and the world. True lasting power lies in endurance. Only weaklings are impatient and rough. He usually loses his human dignity as a result.
9. The spirit will be free only when it no longer serves as a support.
10. Art has always been a matter of investing the whole body and mind. Therefore, art is ultimately tragic.
11. Art is a mirror. Like a clock, it sometimes 'runs fast'.
12. The infinitely broad and fulfilling imagination of the universe is the result of pushing the mixture of arduous creation and free self-thinking to the extreme.
13. The fight against the cell wall has no winner or loser.
14. There is only purpose, no path. The road is a shaky thing.
15. All obstacles can destroy me.
16. People always pursue what they don’t have. The common technological progress of all peoples increasingly causes them to lose their democratic character. Therefore they pursue democratic characteristics. Modern nationalism is a movement that resists the onslaught of civilization.
17. What is wealth? For person A, an old shirt is a fortune, while person B is still poor with ten million dollars. Wealth is a completely relative thing, something that cannot satisfy people. ...Wealth means attachment to possessions, and people have to protect their possessions from loss through new possessions and new dependencies. It’s just a materialized insecurity.
18. People with faith cannot define faith, while the definition given by those without faith is shrouded in the shadow of being rejected.
19. A person tries his best not to lie because he cannot lie, not because the chance he gets to lie is too small.
20. Suppressing the external manifestations of a disease in isolation cannot eliminate the disease. On the contrary, it is worse to do so. A spreading tumor is much more dangerous than several surface tumors.
21. Test yourself with humans. It makes doubters doubt and believers believe.
22. Although there is a purpose, there is no road to follow. What we call a road is nothing more than hesitation.
23. The heart is a house with two bedrooms. One room contains pain and the other room contains joy. People cannot laugh too loudly. Otherwise the laughter will wake up the pain in the next room.
24. It is like an autumn path: before it has time to be cleaned, it is covered with fallen leaves.
25. My ideal way of life is to stay in the innermost room of a spacious, closed cellar with a pen, paper and a lamp. The meal was brought to me and placed behind the first door of the cellar, which was farthest from my room. Walking in my pajamas through all the rooms of the cellar to get my meal would be my only walk. Then I went back to my desk, chewed thoughtfully, and immediately started writing again. What kind of works will I write like that! From what depths will I dig it out?
26. Material must be processed with spirit. What's this? This is experience, nothing more than experiencing and grasping what is experienced.
27. Evil can seduce humans, but it cannot become humans.
28. For my writing I need solitude, not "like a hermit", which is not enough, but like a dead person. Writing in this sense is a deeper sleep, that is, death, just as one does not and cannot pull the dead from their graves, so it is impossible to pull me away from my writing desk in the night.
29. Most of the civilized world is based on a series of training activities. This is the purpose of culture. According to Darwinism, the formation of human beings seems to be the original sin of monkeys, and it is impossible for a creature to completely get rid of the things that form the basis of its existence.
30. A book must be an ax used to break through the frozen ocean in people’s hearts.
31. Because interacting with others will induce a person to think for himself.
32. Every true work of art is a document and testimony.
33. From a certain point on, there is no longer any way out. This can be achieved.
34. We are like abandoned children, lost in the forest.
When you stand in front of me and look at me, do you know the sadness in my heart? Do you know the sadness in your own heart?
35. In this war between you and the world, I support the world.
36. Everyone lives behind the iron fence on their back. Animals are closer to us than people. This is an iron fence. It is easier to bond with animals than with people. Human's natural life is human life, but people cannot see this. People don't want to see this.
37. Even the slightest belief in a once-eternal justification for the ephemeral nature of our earthly lives is far more depressing than a complete belief in our current sinful condition. The power to endure the former belief is pure and fully embraces the latter, and only this power is the measure of faith.
38. On the handle of Balzac’s cane it is written: I am crushing all obstacles. On the handle of my cane it says: All obstacles crush me. The only thing that is the same is: everything.
39. Patience is a clever way to deal with any situation. One must be excited and enthusiastic about everything, yet at the same time calm and patient. Can't bend, can't break. It can only be overcome, starting with self-overcoming. One cannot escape this. To escape from this is to collapse. One must absorb everything patiently and grow patiently. Timid self-boundaries can only be broken through with love. One must see the bright spring green behind the withered and dead leaves rustling around us and wait patiently. Patience is the only true foundation for realizing all your dreams.
40. The pen is not a writer’s tool, but his organ.
41. The power of a country is based on people’s inertia and need for silence.
42. The fountain of desire is the fountain of his loneliness.
43. Youth is full of sunshine and love. Young people are happy because they can see beauty. Once this ability is lost, old age without consolation begins, decline and misfortune begin. Whoever can maintain the ability to discover beauty will never grow old.
44. Many so-called scientists transplant the writer's world to another scientific level, thereby gaining honor and being valued.
45. People must have a hard-hearted attitude towards certain eternal things.
46. We live in an evil era. Nothing nowadays is worthy of the name. For example, now, people's roots have long been pulled out of the soil, but people are still talking about their hometown.
47. Dreams reveal reality, while imagination hides behind reality. This is the terrible thing about life—the shocking thing about art.
48. Literature strives to cast a comfortable and happy light on things, but poets are forced to elevate things to the realm of truth, purity, and eternity. Literature seeks comfort, but poets seek happiness, which is far from comfort.
49. The happiness in this life is not from life itself, but the fear before we ascend to a higher realm of life; the pain in this life is not from life itself, but our self-torture caused by that fear.
50. Human beings’ fault is impatience; abandoning methods before the time is ripe, and arrogantly clinging to illusions.
51. In fact, writers are always much smaller and weaker than ordinary people in society. Therefore, he feels the hardships of human life more deeply and intensely than other people.
52. Instead of believing in a well-known god, it is better to become a source of happiness!
53. They can choose whether to be kings or messengers of kings. Because of the nature of children, they all want to be messengers, so the world is full of messengers. They rush across the world and shout to each other. Since there is no king, what they shout are meaningless messages. They would like to end this miserable life, but they dare not do so due to the constraints of their professional oath.
54. Music produces new, more delicate, more complex, and therefore more dangerous stimuli, while literature should clarify the chaotic and complex stimuli, elevate them to consciousness, purify them, and thus endow them with humanity. Music is a multiplication of sensory life. Literature, on the other hand, suppresses sensory life and leads it to a higher level.
55. The fear of losing one’s job corrupts a person’s character. Such is life.
56. India’s religious self-cultivation activities stem from unfathomable pessimism.
57. I love her, but I can’t talk to her. I spy on her so as not to meet her.
58. On the surface, people in the office seem to be nobler and luckier, but this is just an illusion. In fact, people are lonelier and less fortunate. That's the thing, intellectual labor pushes people into groups of people. On the contrary, craftsmanship draws people into the crowd.
59. Beauty is lonely and desperate.
60. History is made up of mistakes and heroic deeds in every insignificant moment. History is mostly made up of official activities. The luxurious life of the rich comes at the expense of the poverty of the poor.
61. You must go the whole way, you can’t escape.
62. Hard work alone is not enough, ants are also very hardworking.
What are you working on? There are two fundamental faults from which all other faults arise: impatience and laziness.
63. Although the crowd is crowded, everyone is silent and lonely. The evaluation of the world and oneself cannot be correctly intertwined. We do not live in a destroyed world, we live in a world of disorder.
64. They (newspapers) break the wings of imagination. This is natural. The more perfect the drawing technique becomes, the weaker our eyes become.
65. Yes, people are so pitiful. For he was growing more and more lonely minute by minute among the ever-increasing crowd.
66. Although there is a purpose, there is no way to follow it. What we call a road is just hesitation.
67. There are various possibilities in life, and what is reflected in all possibilities is only an inescapable impossibility of one's own existence.
68. How much power is contained in silence. Aggressive aggression is just a charade, a ruse that people often use to hide their weaknesses from themselves and the world. True lasting power lies in endurance.
69. Looking at these screen images, people can only become reality blind.
70. The whole world is tragic, and the iron fist of technology has shattered all protective walls. This is not expressionism. This is naked daily life. Like criminals bound to the execution ground, we are driven to the truth.
71. If anyone abandons the world, he must love all people, because he does not even want their world, so he begins to realize what the true nature of human beings is, which is nothing more than being The premise of human love is that people and their essence are commensurate with each other.
72. Man cannot see through himself, he is in darkness.
73. They turn living, changeable people into dead, incapable of change file numbers.
74. People are free only when they assume responsibility. This is the true meaning of life.
75. The United States is a magical country full of infinite possibilities, while Europe is increasingly becoming an extremely narrow country.
76. The two clocks run inconsistently. The inner clock is running madly, or obsessively, or at any rate in an inhuman way, while the outer clock is running slowly at a normal pace. What else could there be but the mutual division of two different worlds? And these two worlds are divided in a terrible way, or at least tearing each other apart.
77. The spirit will be free only when it does not become a support.
78. Our art is an existence that is dazzled by reality: the light shining on the shrinking strange face is real, and everything else is not.
79. I can never get enough heat, so I burn and burn to ashes from the cold.
80. You can avoid the suffering in this world. You are completely free to do so. This is in line with your nature, but it is this avoidance that is the only suffering you can avoid.
81. Except for a spiritual world, nothing else exists. What we call the perceptual world is just evil in the spiritual world, and what we call evil is just evil. A momentary necessity in our eternal development.
82. Anyone who can’t cope with life when you are alive, then use one hand to push away the despair that surrounds your fate. At the same time, use the other hand to jot down what you are in the ruins. Everything you see in the world is different from what others see, and there is more. In short, during your lifetime, you are already dead, but you are the real rescuer.
83. In order to gain life, people have to abandon life.
84. For the sake of this world, you ridiculously put a harness on yourself.
85. If it is possible to build the Tower of Babi without climbing it, then this work will definitely be allowed.
86. Dreams reveal reality, while imagination hides behind reality. This is the terrible thing about life and the shocking thing about art.
87. Infinite courage comes to you from a real opponent.