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Michelle Gao
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When they looked at each other, a richness of meaning poured from their eyes just as the clouds poured from the cloud well created by the gravitational beam, endless and unceasing. But it wasn’t a language of this world. It constructed a world that gave it meaning, and only in that rosy world did the words of the language find their corresponding referents.
— 10 hours, 52 min ago
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Michelle Gao
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”I have a dream that one day brilliant sunlight will illuminate the dark forest.”
The sun was setting. […] Like the grass, the child running in the distance was bathed in a golden sunset.
The sun will set soon. Isn’t your child afraid?
“Of course she’s not afraid. She knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow.”
— 10 hours, 49 min ago
The sun was setting. […] Like the grass, the child running in the distance was bathed in a golden sunset.
The sun will set soon. Isn’t your child afraid?
“Of course she’s not afraid. She knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow.”
Michelle Gao
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As had occurred so many times before, their eyes met and intertwined, a continuation of that gaze they had held in front of the Mona Lisa two centuries before. They had discovered that the language of the eyes that Zhuang Yan had dreamed up was now a reality, or maybe loving humans had always possessed this language.
— 10 hours, 54 min ago
Michelle Gao
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What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon.
— Oct 09, 2026 06:11AM
Michelle Gao
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The past was like a handful of sand you thought you were squeezing tightly, but which had already run out through the cracks between your fingers. Memory was a river that had run dry long ago, leaving only scattered gravel in a lifeless riverbed. He had lived life always looking out for the next thing, and whenever he had gained, he had also lost, leaving him with little in the end.
— Oct 09, 2026 06:09AM
Michelle Gao
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The free reign of his thoughts surprised him. This used to be a luxury, but now that his nearly two-century-long mission was at an end, his mind could walk a leisurely path.
— Oct 08, 2026 07:30PM
Michelle Gao
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He was, Zhang Beihai noticed immediately, one of those fortunate people who inhabited a beloved world of his own. No matter what changes befell the larger world, he could always immerse himself in his own and find contentment.
— Oct 06, 2026 01:19PM
Michelle Gao
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”It’s such a beautiful world, but when you think about how someday there may be no one here to see it, it’s quite sad.”
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“My dad said that people who are sensitive to beauty are good by nature, and if they’re not good, then they can’t appreciate beauty.”
— Oct 05, 2026 06:51PM
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“My dad said that people who are sensitive to beauty are good by nature, and if they’re not good, then they can’t appreciate beauty.”
Michelle Gao
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What do these people live on if they spend twenty-four hours a day in love?
— Aug 06, 2026 01:30PM
Michelle Gao
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[…] the belief that the military’s traditional moral code is no longer suitable for the battlefield, and that fighting to the death has no meaning; the belief that a soldier’s dignity only exists when there is someone to see it, and when a battle ends in defeat and no humans are left in the universe, then this dignity loses its significance.
— Aug 06, 2026 01:26PM