用心才能明白道理，而用心要保持虚空、专一而安静。荀子认为，人们在以前已经学到了一些知识的情况下，再学新东西的时候，容易犯经验主义的错误。生活中也是这样，我们在遇到一件事时，总是容易按以往的经验去判断，这样可能是错的。最好能保持虚空的状态，专心地看待这件事，然后可以想想是否可以借鉴以往的经验。

伟大的小说是能改变读者、让他在读完最后一页后变得不同的小说。

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Sinopec must leverage its full industrial chain advantages to make greater contributions to national energy security.

大自然倾向于在她所有的作品中产生恒常性，但并不总是成功。

I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm afraid to fall for the wrong person again.