1. Thought is a silent language.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

2. If you want to get married, you must first go on a trip.

——Qian Zhongshu "The Besieged City"

3. There are many scenes in the world that can only be seen with closed eyes, such as dreams.

——Qian Zhongshu's "The Besieged City"

4. With doors, we can go out; with windows, we don't have to go out.

——Qian Zhongshu "The Besieged City"

5. Marriage is a besieged city. People outside the city want to get in, and people in the city want to get out.

——"Fortress Besieged"

6. Love is mostly unsuccessful, either because of the boredom of finally getting married, or because of the sadness of not being able to finally get married.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

7. For an ugly woman, looking closely is a kind of cruelty, unless she is a bad person, you have to punish her.

——Qian Zhongshu’s “Fortress Besieged”

8. Being used to telling big words to deceive others, even yourself can be deceived into believing it. This is a very common psychological phenomenon.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

9. The thorn in life is right here. The thing that lingers on and refuses to leave quickly is the thing you don't linger on.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

10. There is no woman in the world who thinks she is lovable, and there is no man who thinks he is inferior to others.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

11. When two people are together, people will spread rumors, just as when two branches are close, a spider will hang its web.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

12. If you eat an egg and think it tastes good, why do you need to see the hen that laid the egg?

——Qian Zhongshu's "The Besieged City"

13. For grapes that cannot be picked, we can not only imagine them to be sour, but also probably imagine them to be exceptionally sweet.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

14. If a person is not crazy at the age of 20, he has no future; if he is still crazy at the age of 30, he has no future. of.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

15. If you love a woman, you should love her dog. If you sincerely make friends, you should forget your friends' faults.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

16. Turning endurance into enjoyment is the greatest victory of the spirit over the material. The soul can be independent or self-deceptive.

——"The Besieged City"

17. We hope it comes, hope it stays, hope it comes again - these three sentences summarize the entire history of human endeavor.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

18. Useful things can only be used by people, so they exist; but useless things will use people to cover and defend them. , and avoid abandonment.

——Qian Zhongshu "Fortress Besieged"

19. The meaning of a sentence is often like a strange cat coming into the house, making no sound, in the listener's heart. You didn't realize it existed until it called "Miao".

——Qian Zhongshu's "The Besieged City"

20. The viciousness of a loyal and honest person, like the gravel in the rice or the unclean thorns in the boned fish fillet, will give people a sense of disgust. An unexpected pain.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

21. Let people know that you have a secret, but don't let others know what the secret is. Wait for them to ask and ask them to guess. It is the vanity of human nature.

——Qian Zhongshu "The Besieged City"

22. It is said that everyone needs a mirror so that he can often look at himself and know what he is. However, people who are self-aware do not need to look in the mirror at all; looking in the mirror is useless for things that are not self-aware.

——"Fortress Besieged"

23. There are only two kinds of people in the world. For example, when given a bunch of grapes, one kind of person will pick the best ones and eat them first, while another kind of person will save the best ones for last. As usual, the first kind of person should be an optimist, because every time he eats a grape, he is eating the best of the leftover grapes; while the second kind of person should be a pessimist, because every time he eats a grape, he is eating the worst of the leftover grapes. But the reality is just the opposite. The reason is that the second type of people still have hope, while the first type of people only have memories.

——Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"

24. There are no accidents in the world, it is just necessity wearing makeup and a mask.

——Qian Zhongshu "Man·Beast·Ghost"

25. Therefore, each of our shortcomings has compensation. Stinginess is called economics, stupidity is called honesty, and despicableness is called It is flexibility. If you don't have talent, you will say it is virtue.

——Qian Zhongshu "Written on the Edge of Life"