Gao Quotes

You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

Attention, all Gao Enterprise personnel!" Yizhi shouts into his wristlet between ragged breaths. "New bargain: defy us, and all of you and your families will die! Obey us, and you'll keep everything you have and more!

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

لا زلت أعتقد أننى أفهم كل شىء. الأشياء تجرى خلفى، هناك دوما عين غريبة تترصدنى، الأفضل هو التظاهر بالفهم. التظاهر بالفهم، فى الحقيقة، إنى لا أفهم شيئاً، لا أفهم شيئاً على الإطلاق، هكذا الأمر، لا أكثر.

Sitting at rest know not to discuss the shortcomings of other people Setting out on a journey fully appreciate the beauty of the dragon river

The GAO, in its June 2008 report, concluded that one in every sixteen young adults in the United States is now “seriously mentally ill.

في الأصل، الإنسان حرٌ كالعصفور، فلم لا يسعى وراء القليل من المتعة؟

Maybe the was what change was. Cracking open our shields and letting a glimpse of our true selves drip out.

The sea accepts a hundred rivers, grows big by accepting The cliff stands a thousand feet, is strong by not desiring.

Beauty that isn't felt isn't beauty

Mucizeler inanmadım hiç, kadere inanmadığım gibi; ama ümitsiz bir durumdaysanız , mucizelerden başka ümit bağlayacağınız ne kalır?

You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.

الحياة نفسها لا تخضع لاي منطق فلماذا نسعى لاستخلاص معناها على نحو منطقي ؟!

Shimin gulps. "The last thing I needed was another reason for the world to hate me. Though, now..." "Now?" Yizhi's voice goes as airy as the steam wreathing around them. "Now, I see-" Shimin grabs Yizhi's chin. "It's all fucking bullshit." He slams the window shut with his other arm, then leans down and takes Yizhi's lips with his own. My heart stutters, drawing my chest tight. But I'm at peace with this. Instead of a betrayal of any form, it feels like a completion. My killer boy, my sweet boy. The final line in this triangular formation we've been dancing in, making us stronger than ever. This is unconventional, yet another implicit rule we're breaking, but you know what? It works for us. And I think the three of us are done with letting the world tell us what's okay and what isn't.

I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines.

When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there’ll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation?

Gao Qiu swivels his finger to me. "Wu Zetian." He pronounces my name like an intriguing new taste. "Oh, Wu Zetian. Exploding out of nowhere like a firecracker, offing that brat Yang Guang while at it. Fantastic debut, by the way. I can't get that moment out of my head. 'Welcome to your nightmare'," he mimics in a growl. Aiyah. Now it feels weirdly embarrassing that I ever shouted that at a dozen camera drones. "Was it not too much?

Zhao Gao was contemplating treason but was afraid the other officials would not heed his commands, so he decided to test them first. He brought a deer and presented it to the Second Emperor but called it a horse. The Second Emperor laughed and said, "Is the chancellor perhaps mistaken, calling a deer a horse?" Then the emperor questioned those around him. Some remained silent, while some, hoping to ingratiate with Zhao Gao, said it was a horse, and others said it was a deer. Zhao Gao secretly arranged for all those who said it was a deer to be brought before the law. Thereafter the officials were all terrified of Zhao Gao.

Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.

I did not think about what sort of people might read it. In fact, I was writing it for myself.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

Although as an individual Gao had readily denounced the Chinese authorities for the events of 4 June in the French and Italian media, he refused to compromise his integrity as a writer. His stance angered both political sides.

Where does jealousy come from, if not an insecurity that I'll lose you because of him? But that's not how it works, no matter how many people believe it so. You're not something to be kept or taken, and love isn't some scarce resource to battle over. Love can be infinite, as much as your heart can open. I mean, when you think about it, love is fueled mostly by compatibility. Whether two people make each other happy by being close. So it'd be pointless of me to resent Shimin. However compatible you are with him, it doesn't have anything to do with how compatible you are with me.

Tú sabes que no hago nada más que hablarme a mí mismo para distraer mi soledad. Sabes que mi soledad es irremediable, nadie puede consolarme, no puedo recurrir a otro que a mí como interlocutor de mis discusiones. En este largo monólogo, <> es el objeto de mi relato, en realidad es un yo que me escucha atentamente, <> no es más que me propia sombra.

El hombre no puede deshacerse de esta máscara, es la proyección de su carne y de su alma. Se le pega a la piel, jamás podrá liberarse de ella, pero está sumido en un profundo asombro, como si no pudiera creer que se trate de sí mismo. Esta imposibilidad de abandonar la máscara le causaba inmensos sufrimientos. Una vez que se la ha puesto, es imposible arrancársela, porque no tiene voluntad personal, o, si la tiene, no conoce el modo de expresarla y prefiere no mostrarla. La máscara deja así la impresión de un hombre que se contempla eternamente en el más profundo de los asombros.

One evening the stranger told Old Gao that the frames they were making had been invented by an American, only seventy years before. This seemed like nonsense to Old Gao, who made frames as his father had, and as they did across the valley, and as, he was certain, his grandfather and his grandfather’s grandfather had, but he said nothing.

ضحايا الظلم هم دائما من النساء

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can’t be related to another person.

Forge your vision in cold weather, hide within your work until it is spring.

Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

he was as if a “reborn” human being, a “fundamentalist” as a human being.

I hadn't planned on climbing mountains. But now that you're in the mountains, be ready to suffer.

Crafting fine tea requires a highly developed sense of perception for touch, sight, and sound that no machine can replicate. And every tea—from Taiwan’s Ali Shan High Mountain gao shan oolong to a brisk and bright Ceylon black tea from the Nuwara Eliya region of Sri Lanka—tells a story in the cup about the soil and air that nurtured it and the tea-making skills that transformed and shaped it.

La libertad no es un derecho del hombre que concede el cielo, y la libertad de soñar tampoco se adquiere desde el nacimiento: es una capacidad que hay que preservar, una conciencia, sobre todo porque las pesadillas no paran de perturbarla.

Every time i Struggled to fit into the world around me, I thought if I flew far away enough, like Chang'e, the perfect home would magically appear. But when your roots are tangled up across so many different places, that perfect world may not exist.

Is an American citizen more likely to be murdered by a Muslim terrorist or by a Mexican? According to CNN, twenty-nine Americans have been killed in Islamic terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11.67 I don’t know why they excluded 9/11, so by my count, it’s 3,029. In fact, let’s round it up to four thousand to cover the last several decades. According to the GAO’s extremely conservative figures, Mexicans alone—forget other immigrants—have murdered a minimum of twenty-three thousand Americans in the last few decades.68

Tuzağa yakalanmış hissediyorum kendimi. Dev bir zıpkınla vurulmuş, korkunun ağları içinde çırpınan bir balık gibiyim; kaderini değiştiremeyeceğini bile bile çırpınan, bir mucize olmadıkça kurtulmayacağını bilen bir balık. Ama ben hayatın boyunca hep bir mucize beklemedim mi?

الطبيعة ليست مخيفة الإنسان هو المخيف يكفي ان تتآلف مع الطبيعة لكي تتآلف معك أما الإنسان فهو قادر إذا حُبيَ بنعمة الذكاء طبعا على اختراع كل شئ بدءاً بالإشاعات وصولاً إلى طفل الأنبوب لكنه في الوقت نفسه يبيد كل يوم نوعين او ثلاثة من الأنواع الحية في هذا العالم تلك هي الخدعة البشرية

At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several kilos of manuscripts (ten plays, and many short stories, poems, and essays). For him it was an ordeal to part with what he had written. Moreover, it took a long time to burn so much paper without creating smoke and arousing suspicions.

You're light, and float up as if you're weightless. You wander from country to country, city to city, woman to woman, but don't think of finding a place that is home. You drift along, engrossed in savoring the taste of the written language, and, like ejaculating, leave behind some traces of your life. You achieve nothing and no longer concern yourself with things in life and afterlife. As your life was plucked back from death, why should you be concerned? You simply live in this instant, like a leaf in the brink of falling from a tree.

I've never told anyone, but...I've always thought they were lighthouses. Billions of lighthouses, stuck at the far end of the sky." "Wow. It must be so lively up there." "But it isn't. They can see all the other lighthouses out there, and they want to talk to them. But they can't, because they're all too far apart to hear what the others are saying. All they can do is shine their lights from afar. So that's what they do. They shine their lights at the other lighthouses, and at me." "Why you?" "Because one day...I'm going to befriend one of them.

There were no battlefields now, but enemies were everywhere. Defenses were up all over the place, but defense was impossible. He could retreat no further. No longer wildly hoping for anything more, all he wanted was a house in a village, where he could settle down with a wife, but even that possibility was about to vanish. Before dawn, he got the bicycle back to the village. Huang and his wife had waited for him. [...] Before leaving, he waved to them and said that he hadn't been there. They said, of course you haven't, of course you haven't. He had done all he could, the rest was up to fate.

For years, Zhou had been a follower of Mao Zedong, careful never to utter a word of opposition. In this sense, Zhou had assisted in the creation of the very totalitarian system of which he became the victim. Yet in terms of historical legacy, it is Zhou Enlai who has emerged the victor over Mao. Zhou’s death not only struck the death knell of the Cultural Revolution, but also announced the bankruptcy of the Communist myth. If someone so devoted and loyal as Zhou ended up suffering such pathetic treatment at the hands of the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, how could anyone trust in the aims of the revolution?

CDC officials had lied to Congress about where the money went. In 2000, the GAO reported that progress on understanding the disease had been hindered by the theft, as well as by poor coordination between the CDC's and NIH's programs.

Te bastará con familiarizarte con la naturaleza y ella se acercará a ti. El hombre, si es inteligente, por supuesto, es capaz de crearlo todo, desde las calumnias hasta los bebés probeta, pero al mismo tiempo extermina a diario dos o tres especies en el mundo. Este es el gran autoengaño de los hombres.

As Dr. Gao reported, “Our data support the hypothesis that the formation of… compounds generated from oxidation of EPA and DHA in vivo can reach concentrations high enough to induce Nrf2-based antioxidant and… detoxification defense systems.

Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk songs, added some legend-like nonsense of your own invention, and are calling it fiction!

At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth of I derived from fear of death, and only afterwards an entity which was not I came to constitute you. At that time people did not have an awareness of fearing oneself, knowledge of the self came from an other and was affirmed by possessing and being possessed, and by conquering and being conquered. He, the third person who is not directly relevant to I and you, was gradually differentiated. After this the I also discovered that he was to be found in large numbers everywhere and was a separate existence from oneself, and it was only then that the consciousness of you and I became secondary. In the individual’s struggle for survival amongst others, the self was gradually forgotten and gradually churned like a grain of sand into the chaos of the boundless universe.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you’ve read it you’ve read it.

It seemed to me that both Julian and Gao Ming had found something that most very rich people will never have: a feeling that they have enough.

There are moments in life when you want to let go, to give in to your urges with abandon and not think about what comes next. But I know, better than most, that giving in to my desires will not lead anywhere good. If anything, it would set me on a fast track toward the self-destruction route I am constantly fighting to avoid.

I’ll be the first to admit I am a woman of many faults, and one of my worst traits is how completely I manage to destroy the things I care about.

The worst part about Allegra, I’ve learned, is that she’s a better version of Mary Alice. Not because she’s more genuine than I am—though that’s true as well. But she always seems to know what to say and what to do in a kind, gentle way that could only be thought of by someone brought up with love.

All I need is water to take the ibuprofen, because despite being smaller than my pinky nail I’d still probably choke on the pill. That’s one complaint I’ve heard quite often—I have a terrible gag reflex. Doctors would always have to use a fat popsicle stick to hold my tongue down. Just to clarify, the complaint always came from medical professionals. Get your mind out of the gutter.

It would be great to say that I’ve learned from every house I’ve been placed in, that I’m a better person because of it. But that’s clearly not true, if you’ve been paying attention so far. I won’t delude myself into thinking that I’m a good person, and I’m even less inclined to try and convince you of that.

Gone are the days When the sun would find me Still in bed at noon, Days of thoughtless pleasure And delight. Last night I chanced to see The Goddess of the Moon, And glimpsed the brightness of Zen's unfettered light.

Sự thật không thể vui tai, vừa lòng, sự thật ít nhiều vẫn buộc phải có phần gay gắt, nếu không thế thì sao mà nhìn được thẳng vào vận mệnh của bản thân cơ chứ!

I listened to my inner coach, and I ignored my inner enemy,” Gao replied with a smile. “The toughest opponent is always yourself.

Freedom is not a human right conferred by Heaven. Nor does the freedom to dream come at birth: it is a capacity and an awareness that needs to be defended. Moreover, even dreams can be assailed by nightmares.' Gao Xinjian, ONE MAN'S BIBLE

In a May 2016 report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the database contained images of over 411 million people, only about 30 million of whom were “criminal and civil mugshots.

النساء مثلهن لايعرفن الحياة الهانئة الا في ما ندر ، لأن الرجال يرغبون في النساء لمتعتهم الخاصة ، والأزواج يرغبون في زوجة تعني بالمنزل والمطبخ ، والمسنون يرغبون في كنة توفر لهم الذرية ، لا أحد يسعي وراء الحب

Grado de apalancamiento operativo –GAO. Mide el nivel de impulso de la utilidad operativa como consecuencia de una variación en el nivel de actividad. Se calcula dividiendo la variación de la utilidad operativa entre la variación del nivel de actividad.

In its latest audit of the federal government, the GAO concluded there are significant and material weaknesses in the accounting performed at all levels of the federal government.

«Che cosa intendi con “lavorare sodo”?» chiese Gao Yao. «Quando il diluvio è arrivato fino al cielo, circondando le montagne e sommergendo le colline, il popolo è stato inghiottito dalle acque» disse Yu. «Ho viaggiato in carrozza sulla terra, in barca sulle acque, in slitta sul fango e in portantina sui monti. Ogni volta che sono arrivato su una montagna, ho fatto tagliare degli alberi e, con l’aiuto di Yi, ho fatto in modo che tutti avessero cibo e carne da mangiare. Ho riportato l’acqua che aveva invaso i campi nel letto dei fiumi e l’acqua che era nei fiumi nel mare. Con l’aiuto di Ji, ho distribuito tra la popolazione beni difficili da reperire. Là dove c’erano carenze, rimediavo prendendo dai luoghi in cui c’erano eccedenze. Ho fatto trasferire famiglie intere. In questo modo tutti si sono sistemati e pace e ordine ora regnano ovunque.» «Bene! Queste sono davvero perle di saggezza» approvò Gao Yao.

In fact, so bad is the federal government’s management of its massive resources that the General Accountability Office (GAO) found the accuracy of most of its financial reporting suspect.

Now it is customary for presidents to invite friends and donors to the White House. The Clintons, however, took this practice way beyond acceptable boundaries. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown frequently complained that he had become “a m*th*rf*ck*ng tour guide for Hillary” because foreign trade missions had become nothing more than payback trips for Clinton donors. The Clintons arranged for one fat-cat donor without any war experience to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.12 They essentially converted White House hospitality into a product that was for sale. They had unofficial tags on each perk, and essentially donors could decide how much to give by perusing the Clinton price list. In a revealing statement, Bill Clinton said on March 7, 1997, “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I changed government policy solely because of a contribution.”13 Here we see the business ethic of the man; he seems to think it perfectly acceptable to change policy as long as it is only partly because of a contribution. Remember Travelgate? In May 1993, the entire Travel Office of the White House was fired. The move came as a surprise because these people had been handling travel matters for a long time. The official word was that they were incompetent. But a General Accounting Office inquiry showed that the Clintons wanted to turn over the travel business to her friends the Thomasons. Once the scandal erupted, Hillary, in typical Clinton evasive style, claimed to know nothing about it. She said she had “no role in the decision to terminate the employments,” that she “did not know of the origin of the decision,” and that she did not “direct that any action be taken by anyone with regard to the travel office.” But then a memo surfaced that showed Hillary was telling her usual lies. Written by Clinton aide David Watkins to chief of staff Mack McClarty, the memo noted that five days before the firings, Hillary had told Watkins, “We need those people out—we need our people in—we need the slots.” Watkins wrote that everyone knew “there would be hell to pay” if they failed to take “swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady’s wishes.”14 Independent counsel Richard Ray concluded after his investigation that Hillary had provided “factually false” testimony to the GAO, the Independent Counsel, and Congress. He decided, however, not to prosecute her. This would be the first, but not the last, time Hillary’s crimes would go unchecked by the long arm of the law. Just as Bill kept up his predatory behavior toward women because he was never arrested for it, Hillary kept up her moneymaking crime schemes because she was never indicted for any of them. In essence, the Clintons’ behavior was encouraged by lack of accountability.

What worked, GAO found, was strong leadership commitment, investment in the capacity needed to get the job done, careful monitoring of results, and a commitment to stay with the problems until they were solved. Investment in government’s capacity, and careful attention to key details, demonstrated that failure is not the only option. But success builds on people power.

Aslında, neden geldim bu dağlara? Bu bilimsel araştırma merkezlerindeki hayatı yaşayarak deneyim sahibi olmak için mi? Böyle bir deneyimin amacı ne? Eğer karşılaştığım zorluklardan kurtulmak ise, kaçıp kurtulmanın daha kolay yolları vardı. Belki başka bir hayat bulabilmeyi umuyordum? İnsanların dayanılmayacak kadar sıkıcı dünyasından bir an önce uzaklaşmak mı istiyordum? Dünyadan kaçıyorsan, insanlarla iletişim kurmanın ne anlamı var? En büyük sıkıntı, ne aradığımı bilmiyor olmam. Çok fazla düşünce, mantık, çok fazla duygu! Hayatın kendisi hiçbir mantık çerçevesine girmediği halde, neden anlamını mantık yoluyla bulmaya çalışıyoruz? Sanırım çok fazla düşünmekten vazgeçmem gerek,çünkü sıkıntım bundan kaynaklanıyor.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Driving the move is a focus by Beijing on the Internet and innovation-driven sectors to boost slowing growth by easing listing rules. Another factor is a stock rally that has seen the Shanghai Composite Index climb 43% this year, although it fell 6.5% on Thursday. Meanwhile, Chinese investors are pouring money into funds that target startups. In 2014, 39 angel investment funds were set up in China, raising $1.07 billion, a 143% increase from the previous high in 2012, according to investment database pedata.cn, which is run by Zero2IPO Research in Beijing. Angel investors typically provide personal funds to finance small startups. High valuations and the loosening of listing rules will draw more Chinese companies to their home market, said Jianbin Gao of PricewaterhouseCoopers in China. “We anticipate significant growth in technology listings on domestic exchanges,” he said.

山高皇帝远 (Shan gao huang di yuan) The mountain is high and the emperor is far away.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?

The land looks flat from above, but these Chinese rice paddies are terraced for a better yield. Farmers have created these “steps” in China and the Philippines for as long as two millennia; they’re considered a marvel of ancient engineering. (JIALIANG GAO/GETTY IMAGES. ZUBIN LI/GETTY IMAGES)

In Taiwan during the 1960s and mainland China in the 1980s, conceptualism played a role similar to that of Dada, that is, as a vehicle for upsetting conventions - aesthetic, social, and political. Almost all Chinese conceptual artists proclaimed an allegiance to Dada. On the mainland, they also embraced traditional Chan Budhism, wich encourages an ironic sensibility and rejects the privileging of any one doctrine in the search for enlightment. Combined, Dada and Chan Budhism became a potent weapon in the Chinese avant-garde's assault on business as usual.

Regular pepper is known as ‘barbarian pepper’ (hu jiao); the carrot is a ‘barbarian radish’ (hu luo bu). The character hu refers to the old Mongol, Tartar and Turkic tribes of the northwest, but it also means ‘recklessly, foolishly, blindly or outrageously’. ‘Hu hua’ (hu talk) describes the ravings of a madman; hu gao means to mess things up; and other hu compounds refer to all kinds of mischievous, fraudulent, wild, careless, irritating and deranged behaviours.

rebels from the Foreign Ministry, who wanted to hold a discussion about launching a struggle meeting of their own

Zhao Gao was contemplating treason but was afraid the other officials would not heed his commands, so he decided to test them first. He brought a deer an presented it to the Second Emperor but called it a horse. The Second Emperor laughed and said, "Is the chancellor perhaps mistaken, calling a deer a horse?" Then the emperor questioned those around him. Some remained silent, while some, hoping to ingratiate with Zhao Gao, said it was a horse, and others said it was a deer. Zhao Gao secretly arranged for all those who said it was a deer to be brought before the law. Thereafter the officials were all terrified of Zhao Gao.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

A brilliant administrator and an enlightened legislator, Askia reorganized the army, improved the banking and credit systems and made Gao, Walata, Timbuktu, and Jenne intellectual centers. He has been hailed as one of the greatest monarchs of this period.

Gao Jianfu came to India at a juncture when many Indian nationalist leaders and personalities like Gandhi and Tagore were sympathetic to China under the notorious Japanese aggression. Gao was an ardent reader of Rabindranath’s poetry. However, it is hard to trace, from the available data, the extent of his exposure to contemporary art in Bengal since he did not visit Santiniketan and look up its artistic activities. But many of his drawings and sketches bore evidence of some interactions. It is interesting that while the artists of Bengal were eager to assimilate certain elements of Japanese and Chinese art, a celebrated Chinese artist and intellectual visited Bengal almost in the same trajectory, and we do not have enough record of this event. Gao Jianfu, during his long trip to India, also visited the Ajanta caves and made a large number of copies of the Ajanta murals. From these copies, he did a great many sketches and drawings as if he were putting together a visual travelogue interspersed with narratives and footnotes. Fascinatingly, some of his drawings of ruined stupas and Buddhist sites that he visited in India were evidence of their impact on him, working behind his growing inclination to Buddhism and spirituality during the later phase of his life.

Senator Warren’s hope has been that the government could set borrower interest rates in advance to precisely and consistently balance federal revenues and costs. This was a hope the GAO quickly dashed in their report, helpfully titled “Borrower Interest Rates Cannot Be Set in Advance to Precisely and Consistently Balance Federal Revenues and Costs.”28 It’s the oldest play in the book when it comes to pretending to address an intractable policy issue: Commission a report that says it’s not feasible to do anything at all.

自由短暫即逝，你的眼神，你那語調的那一瞬間，都來自內心的一種態度，你要捕捉的就是這瞬間即逝的自由。所以訴諸語言，恰恰是要把這自由加以確認，哪怕寫下的文字不可能永存。可你書寫時，這自由你便看見了，聽到了，在你寫、你讀、你聽的此時此刻，自由便存在於你表述之中，就要這麼點奢侈，對自由的表述和表述的自由，得到了你就坦然。

這種內心的自由，無牽無掛，如雲如風。這自由也不是上帝賜予的，要付出多大代價，又多麼珍貴，只有他自己知道。

The young men are even less inhibited and come right up to the women to choose the one they like best, as if they are choosing a piece of fruit. At this point the women move their handkerchiefs and fans, and the more they are examined the more feeling they put into their singing. When a conversation starts, the young man takes the woman’s hand and they walk off together. The marketplace with its stalls thronging with ten thousand heads during the daytime is now a vast singing stadium. I am suddenly surrounded by an expanse of passions and think that the human search for love must originally have been like this. So-called civilization in later ages separated sexual impulse from love and created the concepts of status, wealth, religion, ethics and cultural responsibility. Such is the stupidity of human beings.

This so-called “independent” monitoring and accountability body’s purpose was to validate the imposition of police state controls by global and local political leaders and technocrats, endorsing their efforts to take the kind of harsh actions that Gates’s simulation modeled: subduing resistance, ruthlessly censoring dissent, isolating the healthy, collapsing economies, and compelling vaccination during a projected worldwide health crises. GPMB’s board includes a pantheon of technocrats whose cumulative global power to dictate global health policy is virtually irresistible: Anthony Fauci; Sir Jeremy Farrar of Wellcome Trust; Christ Elias of BMGF; China’s CDC director, George Gao; Russian health minister, Veronika Skvortsova; WHO’s health director, Michael Ryan; its former director, Gro Harlem Brundtland; its former programming director, Ilona Kickbusch; and UNICEF’s Henrietta Holsman Fore, who is former director of USAID, that used to be a reliable CIA front.

Just try to remember that making someone happy isn't only about finding the answers, it could also be about shaping the question.

I've never told anyone, but...I've always thought they were lighthouses. Billions of lighthouses, stuck at the far end of the sky." "Wow. It must be so lively up there." "But it isn't. They can see all the other lighthouses out there, and they want to talk to them. But they can't, because they're all too far apart to hear what the others are saying. All they can do is shine their lights from afar. So that's what they do. They shine their lights at the other lighthouses, and at me." "Why you?" "Because one day...I'm going to befriend one of them.

The story can also serve as a philosophy for getting on in society – to teach the morally superior man that each day he should investigate his own personal conduct, or that human life is suffering, or that suffering in life derives from the self. Or the story could be developed into numerous intricate and complex theories. It all depends on how the storyteller tells it.

自由並非天賦的人權，而夢想的自由也不是生來就有，也是需要維護的一種能力，一種意識，況且也還受到噩夢的干擾。

This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he’s capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Life is not the same as manifestations of life. Real life, or in other words the basic substance of life, should be the former and not the latter. I had gone against real life because I was simply stringing together life’s manifestations, so of course I wasn’t able to accurately portray life and in the end only succeeded in distorting reality.

你後悔你沒同她約定再見，你後悔你沒有跟蹤她，你後悔你沒有勇氣，沒有去糾纏住她，沒有那種浪漫的激情，沒有妄想，也就不會有豔遇。總之，你後悔你的失誤，你難得失眠，但你竟然一夜沒有睡好。早起，你又覺得荒唐，幸虧沒有莽撞。那種唐突有損你的自尊，可你又討厭你過於清醒。你都不會去愛，軟弱得失去了男子的氣概，你已經失去了行動的能力。