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“The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it’s like cotton—and like silk, too. Indeed, there’s nothing lovelier.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion
“As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there’s too much noise in my world.”
― Can Xue
“The poplars were a symbol. It was only the light from behind the poplars that made their silhouettes visible.”
― Can Xue, Frontier
“To show my revulsion, I jumped on the tea table several times and pretended it was an accident when I knocked the phone off the hook so that there couldn’t be any incoming calls.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion
“When I write, I intentionally erase any knowledge from my mind.”
― Can Xue, Blue Light in the Sky & Other Stories
“If you believed in something like this, it was true; if you didn’t believe in it, it wasn’t.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion
“Behind everyone, there are at least two shadows. Some have even more. [...] The shadows on the ground are like folding fans. Looking at them makes me dizzy. [...] It takes a lot of strength for me to focus my eyes enough to pull the doubled shadows into one. Of course, this isn't at all pleasurable. [...] All of you are so smug. It's ridiculous! If I tell the truth, you'll be furious again. You'll think I'm a mayfly. You'll agree with each other by exchanging understanding glances in order to set your minds at ease.”
― Can Xue
“The bird still didn’t move. Mrs. Yun thought it had discerned her deepest, innermost ideas. Actually, she herself didn’t know exactly what those ideas were.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion
“I've lost you and I have to pass throug many more cities. With a false hope, I walk and walk.
Then the deep sleep, the cold flame burns again, it's brillaint spark penetrating the vital organs of my body.

The spark belongs to me in reality, yet I recognized it in your eyes. Maybe we have the same type of eyes. Maybe the spark from one's eyes can light those of the other, though our own soul is always in chaos. We can only recognize ourselves inn each others eyes.”
― Can Xue, Dialogues in Paradise
“After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion
“«El atractivo sexual de los hombres es algo completamente inútil y que no tiene ningún impacto en la vida de todos los días. El atractivo sexual de las mujeres, sin embargo, es lo que prevalece de ella en el mundo exterior y muestra que existe; es como un talismán del que dependerá su éxito o su fracaso en la vida. Yo, sinceramente, no comprendo el atractivo sexual de los hombres ni en qué consiste realmente. Nosotras las mujeres vemos a todos los hombres iguales. Los hay feos, guapos, viejos o jóvenes, pero son hombres. Sólo si no tienen algún problema en sus órganos reproductores, todos pueden dejarnos embarazadas y pueden trabajar duro de la misma manera. La fuerza tampoco varía de un hombre a otro. Más o menos todos poseen la misma. No son originalmente diferentes. Creo que el atractivo sexual de las mujeres, su erotismo, tiene en cambio sus particularidades y tiene que ver con el nivel de autoconciencia32 que uno mismo puede alcanzar acerca de su propio cuerpo. Cuando ese nivel de autoconciencia llega a su máximo nivel, una mujer se transforma enteramente en una divinidad y alcanza el éxtasis.33 En esa época, cada uno de sus movimientos, cada sonrisa que hacía y cada fruncido de ceño hacía de los hombres unos seres más blandos y débiles. Los intimidaba hasta el punto de que le tenían miedo.”
― Can Xue, Five Spice Street
“He lives in his memories”
― Can Xue, Frontier
“At that moment the rooster was a tiny, light brown, fluffy ball. No clues to future developments could yet be discerned. All existence went along happily under the will of heaven. With the accelerating motion of nonexistence, unstable embarrassing details gradually displaced themselves.”
― Can Xue, The Embroidered Shoes: Stories
“She realized that she no longer feared losing her way. At the same time she felt amazement at her former misunderstanding of the concept of losing the way. How could she have misunderstood for decades?”
― Can Xue, The Last Lover
“Todo el mundo dice que los ojos son las ventanas del alma. ¿Y a quién no le ha dado por pensar en esas ventanas? Pero han olvidado que existen o permanecen cubiertas de polvo y nadie las reconoce.”
― Can Xue, Five Spice Street
“The old woman finally went bankrupt. She had made so much money every day, how could she have gone bankrupt? I didn’t get it.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion
“His wrinkled face showed the changes he had seen.”
― Can Xue, Blue Light in the Sky & Other Stories
“El ser humano es esta clase de monstruo, es pura vanidad, y lucha por el poder desde que viene a este mundo. Si intentas apreciarlos o reconocer al menos su valor, incluso si llegas a la conclusión de que fundamentalmente no son vanidosos o perdonas sus errores, los hombres compensarán esas carencias con una arrogancia y un orgullo desmesurados. Se vanagloriarán de sus hazañas en cualquier sitio hasta marearse, y no tendrán nada claro dónde está su lugar en el mundo. Una vez en ese grado, olvidarán cuál es su verdadera naturaleza; la gran mayoría de nosotros, hombres y mujeres, jóvenes y viejos, nacen sucios y degradados.”
― Can Xue, Five Spice Street
“I've lost you and I have to pass through many more cities. With a false hope, I walk and walk.

Then the deep sleep, the cold flame burns again, it's brilliant spark penetrating the vital organs of my body.

The spark belongs to me in reality, yet I recognized it in your eyes. Maybe we have the same type of eyes. Maybe the spark from one's eyes can light those of the other, though our own soul is always in chaos. We can only recognize ourselves in each others eyes. In the deadly, sleeping, empty city prowls a wolf. In the blue sky hangs a lonely golden hook.”
― Can Xue, Dialogues in Paradise
“Oh, lamento la falta de gente ambiciosa e idealista en este mundo. ¡Y sobre todo lamento la falta de ideales en nuestra sociedad! El mundo se ha llenado de mediocres cuyos proyectos les detienen a medio camino y cuyo talento natural muere prematuramente y son incapaces de predecir lo que sucederá en el futuro. Para ellos, el futuro es sólo una oscuridad eterna, y la situación actual supone solamente un momento lamentable de sus existencias.”
― Can Xue, Five Spice Street
“I was constantly bothered by the question: "Do our voices each the outside world?"

Finally, I shouted loudly, "Is anyone there?"

It was very quiet in the wilds. The indifferent sun besprinkled our bodies. That eternal spheroid was located in the distance. My voice rotated like a propeller, never leaving its original place. After a while, it faded away.”
― Can Xue, Blue Light in the Sky & Other Stories
“Oh —resoplaban—, en la vida debe haber otras cosas. ¡Nos hemos hecho viejos! ¡Ya no podemos disfrutar de la vida! ¡Nuestras luchas no han servido de nada! ¡Vaya pérdida de tiempo! ¡No hemos ganado nada, y ahora sólo sentimos vergüenza por nuestras mujeres! ¡Sólo somos capaces de sentir celos de los jóvenes! ¡Nuestro sentido de la moralidad no nos ha servido de nada! ¡Qué horror! ¡La barbarie!…”
― Can Xue, Five Spice Street
“«Llevo una vida de mendigo —en realidad, era sólo la mitad de la verdad, la otra era que robaba— y me llena de felicidad; simplemente es una sensación, como si todo mi cuerpo se hubiese llenado de luz».

El hijo de la Señora X no tuvo nunca esa sensación en su vida anterior, que estaba más bien dominada por las tinieblas e intentó suicidarse en varias ocasiones. Ahora piensa en llevar una vida eterna, caminar sin detenerse, observarlo todo, pelearse con quien sea y encontrar al amor de su vida, una jovenzuela con la que hacer el amor.”
― Can Xue, Five Spice Street

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