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“Đúng thế đấy, những chuyện này cô đều hiểu. Cô sớm đã biết, cuộc đời này cô có lẽ sẽ gặp được rất nhiều người, biết đâu gặp được người còn hơn cả Dịch Trường Ninh, thế nhưng, dù có là người tốt hơn, đều không phải là Dịch Trường Ninh.”
― Fei Wo Si Cun, Đời này kiếp này

“The most beautiful sea
hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child
hasn't grown up yet.
Our most beautiful days
we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
I haven't said yet...”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing.

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For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us!”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
― Goethe Wolfgang, The Sorrows of Young Werther