The Moon and Sixpence is Mao Mu's masterpiece and a dream book for young artists. This book seems to be calling us all the time: Hey, welcome to the inner world of Mao Mu!
This story is based on the life of Gauguin, a French post-impressionist painter. It tells the story of a stockbroker with a happy family and a stable job. At the age of 40, in order to realize his painting dream, he left home and went to Paris to study painting alone. Finally, he found the "moon" in his heart in Tahiti in the South Pacific and spent the rest of his life.
Mao Mu described a bustling city and a desert island with a keen sense of humor, and coldly examined love, betrayal, dreams and ambitions.
This paper selects 15 classic quotations to express Mao Mu's rational questioning of love, the struggle between ideal and reality, and the complex and true human nature.
1. Why do beautiful women always marry boring men? Because a man with brains won't marry a beautiful woman.
Most women think that a man will always be a beast if he abandons the woman who loves him deeply, but if so, women will actually make more mistakes. Their feelings have their own reasons, and rationality is hard to know.
Love needs an attitude of being willing to show weakness, a desire to protect others, and a desire to please each other as much as possible. In short, love needs selflessness, or at least to hide selfishness without trace; And love also needs to be reserved.
If a woman falls in love with you, she won't stop until she has your soul. Because she is weak and controlling, nothing can satisfy her. She is full of reality and jealous of ideals. A man's soul wanders in the sky, but a woman wants to imprison it in her own account book.
5, also fall in love, the difference between men and women is that women can fall in love all day, while men only have a few minutes.
6. We are like a tram going back and forth between the terminal and the terminal. Even the passengers on the bus can be roughly counted. Life has become too orderly and step by step, and I have an inexplicable fear in my heart.
7. It is really not worthwhile for people in civilized society to kill their own time and waste their short lives on boring entertainment.
When a person falls into the water, it doesn't matter whether he swims well or not: what matters is that he must come out of the water, or he will be drowned.
9. People are generally not what they want to be, but what they have to be.
10, do what you want to do most, live in your favorite environment, be indifferent and quiet, and be aloof from the world. Is this a waste of yourself? On the contrary, to be a famous surgeon with an annual salary of 10,000 pounds and marry a beautiful wife is success? I think it all depends on how a person views the meaning of life, what he thinks he should do to society and what he wants from himself.
1 1. At that time, I didn't know that a person's personality was very complicated. Today, I have realized this: meanness and greatness, malice and kindness, hatred and love can coexist in the same heart.
12, it is said that misfortune and suffering can make people noble, but it is not; Sometimes, happiness can make people do this, but misfortune often makes people narrow-minded and vengeful.
13, writers pay more attention to understanding human nature than judging willfulness.
14, each of us is lonely in this world. Everyone was imprisoned in the iron tower, and he and his companions could only communicate through signals. These signals have no common meaning because their meaning is very vague and uncertain. We try our best to convey the treasure in our hearts to others, but they have no ability to understand, so we can only be lonely, unable to understand others and unable to be understood by others.
15, to appreciate the romantic mood of life, you must be a bit like an actor. You must be able to stand outside and look at yourself and observe your actions with detachment and concentration.
There is not a word about the moon or sixpence in the book, but it tells a story of listening to the inner call and pursuing the ideal. Every step you take counts on the way to chasing your dreams.
The Moon and Sixpence is both narrative and philosophical, which is thought-provoking and worth reading again.
As Woolf said, reading The Moon and Sixpence is like hitting a towering iceberg, completely disintegrating a mediocre life.