Sheng Hui

“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take a good long look at Hamlet through his legs.”
― Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat

“Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.”
― Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice

“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“When people who have been close don't see each other for a time, they become strangers. But when two people live together, no matter how bad things may get between them, they somehow manage to stay close. I suppose human beings are made that way.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Grass on the Wayside