运用 'lies in' 短语指出核心所在，对比 'masculine' 与 'feminine' 突出反差美。
Richard Yates once said: "I think what we call loneliness is simply that the person you are facing, his or her emotions and your own emotions, are not on the same frequency."
Gu Man wrote in My Sunshine: "A single smile defeats a lifetime, a single tear settles a debt. One person blooms, the other fades. All these years, from start to finish, no one has ever asked."
Susan Sontag pointed out: "The most charming aspect of a masculine man lies in his feminine touches; and the most charming aspect of a gentle woman lies in her masculine undertones."
Simone de Beauvoir envisioned in The Second Sex: "One day, perhaps, women will be able to love with their 'strength' rather than their 'weakness,' not by escaping themselves, but by finding themselves; not by self-sacrifice, but by self-affirmation. At that time, love will be the same for her and for him, becoming a source of life rather than a fatal danger."
Zhou Guoping explained in On Happiness: "To attain substantial happiness, one must be neither too clever nor too foolish. People call this state, somewhere between cleverness and foolishness, the wisdom of life."
M. John Harrison reflected in The English Patient: "For what you cannot have, you only escape or divert your attention. If you fail in one thing, you take refuge in another; nothing can change you. Standing before you, you are sometimes so indifferent, sometimes so silent, as if revealing even a bit of your personality would be the greatest betrayal of yourself. I know I cannot change you, so I leave you."
理查德·耶茨曾言：“我想所谓孤独，就是你面对的那个人，他的情绪和你自己的情绪，不在同一个频率。”
顾漫在《何以笙箫默》中写道：“一个笑就击败了一辈子，一滴泪就还清了一个人。一人花开，一人花落，这些年从头到尾，无人问询。”
苏珊·桑塔格指出：“阳刚男子最有魅力的地方，在于他有点女性化的东西；而娇柔女子最有魅力的地方，在于她有一点男子气概的东西。”
波伏娃在《第二性》中展望：“有一天，女人或许可以用她的‘强’去爱，而不是用她的‘弱’去爱，不是逃避自我，而是找到自我，不是自我舍弃，而是自我肯定，那时，爱情对她和对他将一样，将变成生活的源泉，而不是致命的危险。”
周国平在《论幸福》中阐述：“一个人要获得实在的幸福，就必须既不太聪明，也不太傻。人们把这种介于聪明和傻之间的状态叫做生活的智慧。”
翁达杰在《英国病人》中感慨：“对于你无法拥有的，你只是逃避，或转移自己的注意。如果你在一件事上失败了，你就拿另一件事当寄托，没有任何事情能改变你。你站在我面前，有时是那么漠然，有时又那么沉默，好像只要暴露一点你的个性，就是对你自己最大的背叛。我知道我无法改变你，所以我离开你。”