We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one.

迷恋歌舞女色的心太浓重了，就会生出虚怯的毛病来；追求钱财利益的心太浓重了，就会生出贪得无厌的毛病来；热衷功名成就的心太浓重了，就会生出造作的毛病来；追求声誉名望的心太浓重了，就会生出言行偏激的毛病来。

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.