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Post by Changming Yuan on Sept 21, 2007 21:12:38 GMT -5
Forty years of age means no more bewilderment. . -- Confucius .
1. There is light in every dream we have in darkness. .
2. Pleasant or painful, all experiences are as good as cash saved for a long rainy day. .
3. The meaning of life, if any at all, is to create a meaning for life. .
4. All human relationships are merely a matter of words: the situation is always determined by how, where, when and what words or nonwords are uttered by whom. . 5. Money is as much a number-play to the rich as a death-dance to the poor. .
6. A house for sale is never a home, while a heart unoccupied is a hotel for rent. .
7. Freedom is the thin distance between the fleeing mouse and the chasing cat. .
8. Love may be 99% honey and 1% money, while marriage is definitely otherwise. .
9. True wealth is measured by the number of times you say no or take a shower. .
10. Birth throws us out into different times whereas death recalls us back into the same place. .
11. One most rewarding self-entertainment is masturbating with the idea of death. .
12. Those who carve their love on their chestbones often fall in love with those who throw their love together with their used lipsticks or handkerchiefs. .
13. This is not simply a grammatical game of changing the voice: every man loves a woman, but a woman is not loved by every man, and et cetera or vice versa. .
14. Many still very much alive are stone dead; many already stone dead are still very much alive. .
15. There are almost as many animals that have taken off their human clothes as humans that have put on their animal skins. .
16. Comedy can come without romance or finance, but tragedy has to do with either or both. .
17. Growth is painful because it means a series of deaths of our pasts, while death can be pleasant because it may result from a series of births of our presents. .
18. Misfortune is a peculiar privilege. .
19. In memories, roses always look fresher, while thorns less sharp. .
20. What we see or read has always been so edited that the truth remains only in the mind of history unwritten. .
21. You may have everything except disease or nothing except money. .
22. Humans are different from animals in that they wear garments, build walls, tell tales and eat each other. .
23. Remaining an outsider can give you a sense of superiority, transcendence and peacefulness. .
24. Every life is a work of art; however, not every work of art is a life. .
25. Only those determined to reform others can hope to be reformed. .
26. Art is a bizarre business of dying there or living forever. .
27. He is happy who is not afraid not to be rich, sexual, famous or powerful. .
28. Do some deep thinking about nothing every day, and you will stay healthy, wealthy and wise. .
29. We all have some questions for heaven, but heaven always remains silent. .
30. In this age of information, we are all fish swimming freely before the net is towed onto the boat. .
31. With the whole world becoming so crowded with salespersons, it is high time to invent new alien buyers for our hearts and souls. .
32. Good writing comes from the proper author from the proper place. .
33. Political correctness means to see to say nothing as if it were news. .
34. Democracy is a government of, by and for the few most manipulative. .
35. You may have as many futures as new beginnings, but you can have only one past and one present. .
36. Wisdom and religion are different in form but identical in essense: while religion is a ritualized social practice of wisdom, wisdom is an art of staying happy without having to be successful in a social sense. .
37. Many stars have already died long before their light reaches our eyes. .
38. Schooling is either an interruption or an intervention of learning. .
39. Mask is the only garment that will never go out of fashion. .
40. Like god who invented man to expell him from heaven, man invented money to drive himself to hell. .
First appeared in dANDelion (2006) vol.32, no.2.
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