Quotes

Pretentious profoundness and complacent vanity may be able to delude the whole world,but won't be able to face a child.The bright and limpid eyes of children are the best benchmark of the world's aesthetics.

——Yu Qiuyu,scholar

一切裝腔作勢的深奧，自鳴得意的無聊，可以誆騙天下，卻無法面對孩子。孩子明澈的眼睛，是天下美學的第一坐標。

——學者余秋雨

Being engaged in your favorite work in your own way and at the right time,to me,constitutes the entire definition of a free man.

——Novelist as a Vocationby Japanese writer Murakami Haruki

在自己喜歡的時間里，按照自己喜歡的方式，去做自己喜歡做的事，對我而言，這便是自由人的定義。

——[日]村上春樹《我的職業是小說家》

It won't take long for one to stare at their own face every day.It usually happens in the bathroom in the morning or evening,or anywhere there is a mirror,and mostly a quick glimpse.It is said that,based on an eighty-year cycle in a human life,the amount of time looking at our own faces does not exceed 500 hours.We look at others'faces more than at our own,thus causing a problem: We see more defects in others while less care is given to our own.

——Complexionby Liu Sha

一個人每天看自己的臉的時間不會很長，它發生在早晨、晚間的衛生間，或有鏡子的地方，而且往往是“驚鴻一瞥”。按照一個人生命周期八十年來計算，據說我們看自己的臉的時間不足五百個小時。自己的臉看得少，別人的臉看得多，就會造成一個問題：總是發現別人的缺陷，而對自己的臉關照不多。

——流沙《臉色》

In actuality,Ne Zha is every one of us—even when his neck is tilted by the collapsed sky,he will struggle and grow out more heads and arms to hold up the sky.

——Jiaozi,director ofNe Zha,an animation movie which went viral in the summer of 2019

其實哪吒是我們每個人，即便被塌下來的天壓歪了頭，也能掙扎著生出三頭六臂把天扛起來。

——電影《哪吒之魔童降世》導演餃子