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不折不从，
星斗其文，
亦慈亦让，
赤子其人。
---on 沈从文

细草愁烟，幽花怯露
---晏殊

Against stupidity, the god themselves contend in vain
---Schiller
---quoted by Asimov "The God Themselves"

因此我们的故事只好在这里作悲剧性的结束。万历丁亥年的年鉴，是为历史上一部失败的总记录。
----黄仁宇 万历十五年, the ending sentence

昵昵儿女语，灯火夜微明。恩怨尔汝来去，弹指泪和声。忽变轩昂勇士，一鼓填然作气，千里不留行。回首暮云远，飞絮搅青冥。
众禽里，真彩凤，独不鸣。跻攀寸步千险，一落百寻轻。烦子指间风雨，置我肠中冰炭，起坐不能平。推手从归去，无泪与君倾。
-----苏轼

伶伦吹裂孤生竹 却为知音不得听
---李商隐

"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
--Pater "Renaissance"

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
-- Asimov "Free Inquiry (Spring 1982)"

For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-- Asimov "Foundation", Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1942

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
You can love a name and if you love a name then saying that name any
number of times only makes you love it more, more violently more
persistently more tormentedly.

—Gertrude Stein

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?--come, children,let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
唉，浮名浮利，一切虚空！我们这些人里面谁是真正快活的？谁是称心如意的？就算当时遂了心愿，过后还不是照样不满意？来吧，孩子们，收拾起戏台，藏起木偶人，咱们的戏已经演完了。

--_Vanity fair_ by W. M. Thackeray

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

--Blade runner