1. I like money because I've never suffered from a lack of it, I don't know its downsides, only its benefits.
2. To love someone to the point of asking them for pocket money is a rigorous test.3. For those who can't speak, clothing is a language, a miniature drama they carry with them. (From "Changing Clothes")
4. Useless women are the most powerful women.
5. The greatest happiness in life is discovering that the person you love also loves you.
6. "Life and death are intertwined—to be happy with you, to hold your hand, to grow old together" is the saddest poem… Life, death, and separation are all major events, beyond our control. Compared to external forces, how small, how small we humans are! Yet we insist on saying: "I will always be with you, we will never leave each other in this lifetime"—as if we could decide for ourselves.
7. Hearing things that are clearly unrelated, my mind will wander to you.
8. If you die, my story ends, but if I die, your story will continue.
9. Are you young? It doesn't matter, you'll be old in a couple of years.
10. For people over thirty, ten or eight years is just a fleeting moment; but for young people, three or five years can be a lifetime.
11. I love you, what's it to you? No matter what happens, it's not your fault.
12. Because of understanding, there is compassion
. 13. "In life and death, we are bound together; holding your hand, we grow old together" is a sad poem, yet its attitude towards life is so affirmative. I don't like the dramatic. I like the tragic, and even more so, the desolate. The dramatic is just force, without beauty, seemingly lacking humanity. Sorrow, on the other hand, is like a striking contrast of bright red and green. —From "My Own Writings"
14. I am an eccentric girl, considered a genius from childhood, with no goal in life other than developing my genius. However, as the fantasies of childhood gradually faded, I discovered that I had nothing but the dream of genius—all I had were the eccentricities and flaws of a genius. The world forgives Wagner's eccentricities, but they will not forgive me—"The Dream of Genius"
15. One day our civilization, whether sublime or superficial, will become the past. Yet now it is still a clear and bright autumn, and I should be happy—"Legend" Preface
17. There is always time and opportunity for things to do; there is always an excuse for things not to do—from "Eileen Chang's Quotations"
18. Memories are always melancholic. Pleasant memories make one feel: it's a pity it's over; unpleasant memories still make one sad—from "Eileen Chang's Quotations"
19. A true friend is like a mirror, reflecting the most beautiful part of our nature—from "Eileen Chang's Quotations"
20. Doing things for others, even with a little resentment, makes life meaningful; otherwise, it's too empty—from "Eileen Chang's Quotations"
21. Teaching is difficult—you have to act and you have to be a person
—from "Eileen Chang's Quotations"
22. Books are the best friends. The only downside is that it worsened my nearsightedness, but it was still worth it. —From Eileen Chang's Quotations
23. You ask me if loving you is worth it, but you should know that love is about not asking if it's worth it.
—From the novel *Half a Lifetime's Romance*
24. Photographs are nothing more than the broken shells of life; the fleeting years have passed, the melon seeds have been swallowed one by one, each person knows the taste themselves, and all that's left for others to see are the messy black and white melon seed shells. —From the novel *The Chain*
25. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
—From the novel *The Fading Flower*
26. Are you young? It doesn't matter, you'll be old in a couple of years. Women… women spend their whole lives talking about men, thinking about men, resenting men, forever and ever.
26. You can always find time and opportunity for things you want to do; you can always find excuses for things you don't want to do.
27. If you don't flirt with a woman, she says you're not a man; if you do flirt with her, she says you're not a gentleman.
28. Memories are always melancholy. Pleasant moments make one feel: it's a pity it's over; unpleasant moments still cause sadness when recalled.
30. Perhaps every man has had two women like this, at least two. If he marries the red rose, over time, the red fades into a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, while the white remains "the bright moonlight before the bed"; if he marries the white rose, the white becomes a grain of rice on his clothes, while the red is a cinnabar mole on his heart.
31. If you knew the me of the past, perhaps you would forgive the me of today.
32. The greatest happiness in life is discovering that the person you love also loves you.
33. Love is not complicated; it boils down to three words: I love you, I hate you, or let's call it quits, how are you, I'm sorry.
34. The highest realm of love is when both parties are interested but don't express it, because at this time, both are fully enjoying the flirtatious glances, the fiery emotions when their eyes meet, and the thrilling touch of their fingers. Once spoken, the flavor fades.
36. Fame should come early; if it comes too late, the joy isn't so intense.
38. Life is a magnificent robe, crawling with lice.
— *The Dream of Genius*
39. The most detestable person, if you study them closely, you'll always find they're nothing more than a pitiful person.
40. Life has its own pattern; we can only imitate it.
41. The dramatization of life is unhealthy. People like us, growing up in urban culture, always see the picture of the sea before seeing the sea; read romance novels before knowing love.
42. Even if an individual can wait, the times are fleeting, already in destruction, and even greater destruction is yet to come.
43. For most women, love means being loved.
44. Suffering is long, life is short.
45. Details are often beautiful, pleasant, and captivating, while the theme is always pessimistic.
46. To love someone to the point of asking them for pocket money is a rigorous test.
47. Doing things for others, even with a little resentment, makes life meaningful; otherwise, it's too empty.
49. A person's noblest qualities are most evident when in love. This is why romance novels are always popular—both in ancient and modern times, and across cultures.
50. People waste things because they are unhappy; it's a form of compensation.
51. I want you to know that there is always someone in this world waiting for you, no matter when or where. You know there is always such a person.
52. If memories had a scent, it would be the fragrance of camphor, sweet and reassuring, like clearly remembered joy; sweet and wistful, like forgotten sorrow.
54. When a man desires a woman's body, he becomes concerned with her soul, deceiving himself into believing he has fallen in love with her soul. Only after possessing her body can he forget her soul.
55. If it were suicide, death would be the end, but life is more terrifying than death. Life can develop without limit, becoming worse and worse, even more unbearable than the most unbearable state one could have imagined.
56. Oversized clothes possess a unique allure; as one walks, one wave rises after another. Where there are people, it is the people who tremble; where there are no people, it is the clothes that tremble—a surreal and mysterious spectacle. 58.
There is no emotion in this world that is not riddled with holes.
60. To like someone is to be humble to the point of dust, and then to bloom.
61. Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
62. The immense self and this decaying yet beautiful world, two corpses tied back to back, you dragging me down, I dragging you down, sinking.
63. But, the wine is in the stomach, the matter is in the heart; there always seems to be a layer between them. No matter how much wine one drinks, it cannot reach the heart.
64. A man who truly understands a woman will not love her.
65. He looked at his own flesh, not as if he were looking at himself, but as if he were looking at a lover outside of himself, deeply saddened, feeling that he had wasted himself.
66. A woman who has not yet obtained her own share of wealth, her own worries, burdens, and joys often has that watchful, waiting expression.
68. Kind people always suffer; that heavy burden of sorrow seems to be innate, therefore they can only endure.
69. Deep affection is a burden I cannot bear; sweet words are merely lies occasionally fulfilled.
70. I love you, and for your happiness, I am willing to give up everything—including you. 71.
Small sorrows and difficulties can cultivate a serious outlook on life.
73. Generally speaking, people who have lived more than half their lives usually have some genuine life experience and unique insights. They never thought of writing them down, and with the passage of time, they are simply forgotten.
74. Men make mistakes, but women plan in great detail how they will make mistakes. Women don't think much about the future—and at the same time try to forget their past—so heaven knows what they have to think about!
75. Among millions of people, you will meet the one you are meant to meet. In the vast wilderness of time, spanning millions of years, neither a step too early nor a step too late, when we meet, we can only softly say, "Oh, you're here too?"
78. Love is not complicated; it boils down to three words: "I love you," "I hate you," or "Let's call it quits, how are you?" "I'm sorry."
79. Disappointment, sometimes, is also a kind of happiness, because only with expectation can there be disappointment. Because there is love, there is expectation, so even disappointment is a kind of happiness, though this happiness is tinged with pain.
80. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you, I wouldn't be jealous of the opposite sex around you, I wouldn't lose my confidence and fighting spirit, and I wouldn't be in pain. If only I could stop loving you.
81. We can never go back!
82. If emotions and time could be gently torn apart and thrown into the sea, then I would willingly remain silent at the bottom of the ocean forever. Your words, I love to hear, but I don't understand; my silence, you wish to see, but you don't understand.
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