Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

The first sentence of the novel is the most important, but the last sentence is the one that stays with you.

当每一天都和前一天一样时，是因为人们未能认识到每天太阳升起时，生活中发生的那些美好事物。

当下是唯一的现实，唯一的确定性。

The best revenge is massive success.

爱不是胜利的进行曲，而是一声寒冷而破碎的哈利路亚。