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

一切装腔作势的深奥，自鸣得意的无聊，可以诓骗天下，却无法面对孩子。孩子明澈的眼睛，是天下美学的第一坐标。

——学者余秋雨

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

在自己喜欢的时间里，按照自己喜欢的方式，去做自己喜欢做的事，对我而言，这便是自由人的定义。

——[日]村上春树《我的职业是小说家》

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

一个人每天看自己的脸的时间不会很长，它发生在早晨、晚间的卫生间，或有镜子的地方，而且往往是“惊鸿一瞥”。按照一个人生命周期八十年来计算，据说我们看自己的脸的时间不足五百个小时。自己的脸看得少，别人的脸看得多，就会造成一个问题：总是发现别人的缺陷，而对自己的脸关照不多。

——流沙《脸色》

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

其实哪吒是我们每个人，即便被塌下来的天压歪了头，也能挣扎着生出三头六臂把天扛起来。

——电影《哪吒之魔童降世》导演饺子