There can be landscapes of a single hue, and there can be flowers and birds fluttering about; in our world, as long as you have ability, creating doesn’t seem to be hard. What’s hard is controlling desire, and changing the actual layout. Guarding silently and fighting silently, perhaps without knowing what it is you actually want, or how much meaning this existence has; in the end you can’t escape self-interest — once interests are unbalanced there will be problems, there will be struggle…
Sometimes I really am lonely, yet I can’t find my her — where is she…
A long road, a long history, yet no long stretch of time and space to travel through to the past.
If you don’t have a pretty face, show yourself through ability; and one more thing — people always love a standard of beauty, and it takes plenty of beauties to please the eye, which is why manufacturing beauties is in fashion now.
We were all raised by our parents, yet now we carry the pressure of providing for them in their old age, far beyond what they ever worried about. The affection is there, but I am no longer…
Nobody says anymore that the sunset is the most beautiful, nobody says anymore that one’s wife is the most beautiful, nobody says anymore that time is precious… you’ll find these are all just opinions, granted by the masses, in which the public stays endlessly intoxicated.
Gunpowder advanced into weapons and drove the exploitation of the natural environment, and at the same time many lives died miserably.
There are birds that can fly, pangolins that burrow into the ground, cicadas that climb trees, tigers that swim — so why is there no all-capable human? Because the species are different: humans are only one kind, while animals truly come in countless kinds.
In the known world, only plants live the longest — from the moment they are born they stay rooted in one place, never moving.
Physical things make people fat, and they also make for the surest way to become duller.
