We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

-- Dante Alighieri

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, I willingly serve as a children's ox.

-- Lu Xun

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry