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The heart is a house with two bedrooms,
one for pain and the other for joy,
and one cannot laugh too loudly.
Otherwise the laughter would wake up the pain in the next room.
-Kafka, “The Book of Proverbs”
-2 –
It took all the luck in the world to meet you in a single moment of your life
.
-Lin Xi, “Next Year Today”
-3-
Once upon a time, the day became slow,
car, horse, and mail were slow,
only enough to love one person in a lifetime.
-Mu Xin, “Once Upon a Time, Slowly”
-4-
When pain comes, don’t always ask, “Why me?”
Because you didn’t ask that question when joy came.
-Han Han
-5-
To act as if nothing had happened turns out to be the most vicious revenge.
-Lin Xi “Want to Cry”
-6-
All human suffering,
is essentially anger at one’s own incompetence.
-Wang Xiaobo
-7-
What one loves is what one dies on.
-Lao She
-8-
If what you give me,
is the same as what you give others, then I don’t want it.
—Sanmao
-9-
If I had known that I was tripping over people’s hearts, why didn’t I meet them in the first place?
-Li Bai’s Lyrics for the Autumn Wind
-10-
If you want to tame someone,
you have to risk losing your tears.
-The Little Prince
-11-
There comes a time in your life when
you are already in turmoil inside,
but to others it seems
No one is surprised that you are just a little bit quieter than usual.
This kind of war is destined to be fought single-handedly.
-Bai Yansong, “Pain and Happiness”
-12-
I have traveled over bridges in many places,
seen clouds many times, drank many kinds of wine,
but only
I have loved only one person at the right age.
-Shen Congwen’s “A Scattering of Hunan Travels”
-13-
I give you my whole soul,
along with its eccentricities, petty temperament,
flashes of light and darkness, eighteen hundred bad qualities.
With its quirks, its little tantrums, its brightness and darkness, its 1,800 bad habits.
It’s so annoying, only one thing good, loving you.
-Wang Xiaobo
-14-
Courage is grace under pressure.
—Hemingway
-15-
In fact, all people who struggle to make a choice have the answer in their hearts long ago,
Consultation just wants to get the choice that their hearts are inclined to.
The final so-called destiny is still your own step by step.
– Keigo Higashino, “The Grocery Store”
-16-
If the heart has no place to rest, it is wandering wherever it goes.
-Sanmao
-17-
The first sign of true love,
is timidity in a boy, and boldness in a girl.
-Hugo, Les Misérables
-18-
How could we meet if we did not owe each other!
–Siddhartha Gautama
-19-
Your problem is mainly that
you don’t read much and think too much.
–Yang Jiang
-20-
You come to earth for a trip
You have to see the sun
and your beloved
walk on the road
— Haizi
-21-
You did not return as expected,
and that is the meaning of parting.
-Beijima
-22-
The grass is bearing its seeds
The wind is shaking its leaves
We stand, without speaking
and it is very beautiful
. p>-Gu Cheng “In Front of the Gate”
-23-
With parents, life is still coming.
When parents go, there is only a way back in life.
-Bi Shumin, “Filial piety is priceless”
-24-
The spring water is blue in the sky, and the painted boat is listening to the rain to sleep.
-Wei Zhuang-“Bodhisattva Barbarian”
-25-
The floating world is a thousand, my love has three.
The sun, the moon, and the secretary.
The sun is the morning, the moon is the evening, and the qing is the morning and the evening.
-The Twilight Zone
-26-
The great fanfare of leaving is in fact all trial and error,
The real departure is no farewell, and those who never yell at the top of their voices to leave,
The real departure is no farewell, and those who shouted to leave,
were the ones who ended up picking up the shards of glass that fell on the ground,
bending down piece by piece.
And the person who really wanted to leave just picked a windy afternoon,
wrapped up in a coat most often worn, went out the door, and never came back.
-Liu Liangcheng, “A Village of One’s Own”
-27-
Everyone has a forest of their own,
maybe we’ve never been there,
but it’s always There it is, always there,
Lost people are lost, and those who meet will meet again
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-28-
I have lived an ordinary life with all my might.
-Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
-29-
You’re going to be an immovable adult.
No getting emotional, no secretly missing, no looking back.
Go live your other life.
Behave, not all fish live in the same sea.
–Haruki Murakami, “Dance Dance Dance”
-30-
A man after middle age often feels lonely because as soon as he opens his eyes,
he is surrounded by people who have to depend on him, but there are no He has no one he can rely on.
—Eileen Chang
Which of these 30 beautiful lines has stunned you?