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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“人烧成了灰，成分就跟磷灰石差不多，并没有什么值得敬畏的，为什么我们要把它当回事？为什么每年头尾都有个年节作为始终，为什么勾搭别人上床之前先得有个告白和压马路的过程？为什么合法同居除了有张证之外，还得邀请亲朋好友来做一个什么用也没有的仪式？因为生死、光阴、离合，都有人赋予它们意义，这玩意看不见摸不着，也不知有什么用，可是你我和一堆化学成分的区别，就在于这一点‘意义’。”
― Priest, 默读 [Mo Du] The Light in the Night

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains