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“The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“Don’t swallow a scythe if your stomach isn’t curved”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“Strong winds eventually cease, unhappy families return to peace”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“a bright sun darkens, a full moon wanes, a full cup overflows, and decay follows prosperity”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“Prosperity and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“run, run, you can’t get away, the monk can run but the temple will never get away!”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“It’s not a joke. Life is not a joke.”
― David Szalay, All That Man Is

“I was an idiot. End of. Put that on my fucking tombstone”
― David Szalay, All That Man Is

“If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The arguments, the discussions were the great thing: the love-making and connexion were only a sort of primitive reversion and a bit of an anti-climax”
― David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality”
― David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“She couldn't quite, quite love in hopelessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever quite love at all”
― David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever”
― David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.”
― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“The thing that was your bright treasure. You don’t think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“The
Earth, after all, doesn’t creak and groan its way around the sun
just so human beings can have a good time and a bit of a laugh.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“and reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Every story has a time to be told”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“self-interest and kindness were best not separated”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement