Lin Yutang wrote in 'Life is Just Like This': 'Life is just like this, so let's walk and cherish it. You are always the protagonist of your own life; do not always play a supporting role in someone else's drama.'
Fernando Pessoa expressed a strong desire to escape in 'The Book of Disquiet': 'I wish I could go far away, escape what I know, escape what I have. I want to set out, to any place, whether it is a village or a wilderness, as long as it is not here. All I yearn for is to stop seeing these people and stop living this endless life. What I want to achieve is to take off the disguise I have become accustomed to, to become another me, and thus get some relief. Unfortunately, I have always been thwarted in these matters.'
Yi Shu stated succinctly in 'Joy': 'Capable people influence others; incapable people are influenced by a group.'
Nabokov deeply analyzed human nature: 'There are three things a person cannot hide: coughing, poverty, and love; the more you try to hide them, the more obvious they become. There are three things a person should not waste: body, money, and love; if you try to waste them, you will lose more than you gain. There are three things a person cannot hold back: time, life, and love; if you try to hold them back, they will drift further away. There are three things a person should not recall: disaster, death, and love; if you try to recall them, you will suffer terribly.'
Jane Austen reminded us in 'Pride and Prejudice': 'Burrowing feelings too deeply can sometimes be a bad thing. If a woman conceals her feelings for the man she loves, she may lose the opportunity to win him.'
Shi Tiesheng expounded on the understanding of love in 'Notes on the Virtual': 'No matter how many times you are disappointed by the opposite sex, you have no reason to be disappointed in love. Because love itself is hope, and it is always a kind of hope in life. Love is your own quality, your own soul, your own situation, and has nothing to do with others. Love is not a noun, but a verb, an eternal verb, an infinite motion.'
Kundera revealed the subtlety of emotion in 'Immortality': 'It is obvious that feelings are suddenly discovered between our unawareness, and often in a situation where we are helpless. When we 'hope' to feel it, it is no longer a feeling, but an imitation of feeling, a display of feeling.'
