Yi Sang Quotes

I regretted that I had gone out. I wanted a long, sound sleep, forgetting all this fatigue. I wanted a good, long sleep.

I regretted that I had gone out. I wanted a long, sound sleep, forgetting all this fatigue. I wanted a good, long sleep.

La métaphore, tout d'abord, ne relie pas seulement le corps humain à l'univers dans son ensemble, mais surtout à un pays, voire à un paysage : « le corps humain est l'image d'un pays (yi-jen tche chen, yi kouo tche siang) », disent les Taoïstes du Moyen Age. Et, depuis l'époque Song, le corps humain a été représenté sous les apparences d'un paysage, avec des montagnes et des lacs, des forêts et des habitats. Paysage ou pays qui constitue aussi un royaume, avec son administration : le cœur est le prince, les autres viscères ses ministres, le sang son peuple, etc. Recherches sur le corps taoïste 1976

Every day I am fated to die. When I awake from the sleep I have been sleeping - how long ago did I begin this sleep that I sleep - a bone-painful life resumes and even though I lie down and cover myself with blankets, I witness the squandering of my youth.

Have you ever heard of 'a genius who had been stuffed and preserved'?

Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity. I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.

I am also planning a life with a woman. I am a person who has become unfamiliar with the art of love, someone who has caught a glimpse of the very summit of human intellect; in other words, a kind of mentally excitable person. What I mean is that I am planning a life which will accept only a half of this woman - which is in fact the half of everything. I will put only one foot in this life and my two halves will face each other like the two suns and giggle. All the activities of life seem unbearably dull to me and I have renounced them. Good-bye!