Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
“…Ơi những người thiên lý tương tư! Nếu bất ngờ những dòng sau đây có lạc vào tay bạn, mà thấy nói được lên một mối cảm hoài của bạn vẫn chất chứa ở bên lòng, thế là kẻ viết bài này lấy làm mãn nguyện lắm rồi. Đời mà có một người vui cái vui của mình, buồn cái buồn của mình, chẳng là đủ rồi sao, có tâm sự trong lòng, lặng nhìn nhau không nói mà cũng cảm biết, thế chẳng là đủ rồi sao?”
― Thương Nhớ Mười Hai
― Thương Nhớ Mười Hai
“It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“Tôi tin rằng chết không phải là hết mà dương trần và âm cảnh vẫn có tương quan và tôi thấy cảnh người sống và người chết thông cảm với nhau có một cái gì làm cho người ta xúc động và kính cẩn.”
― Thương Nhớ Mười Hai
― Thương Nhớ Mười Hai
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
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