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四月，白色苹果花开始盛开，尽管后来结出的总是酸苹果，花还是很香。六月的粉红的野玫瑰成片成片地开在山坡，最好选个下雨的日子，微风吹过，玫瑰香飘沁人心脾。契科夫说如果爱经常是残酷或毁灭性的，其原因并不在于爱，而在于俩人之间的不平等。法国大革命时将自由、平等和博爱一起提出来，确实具有革命性。自由给人以空间，而城市将人们集中起来，试图挤压自由的空间。平等给人际关系以保护，这种保护可以让人有能力离开被欺凌被操控的有害关系。有了自由和平等，爱才会正常成长，如花开于阳光和雨露之中。 维克多·雨果《悲惨世界》: 他对妇女和穷人特别宽容，因为他们受到人类社会的压迫。他说：“妻子、孩子、仆人、弱者、穷人和无知者犯错误，是丈夫、父亲、主人、强者、富人和有学问的人造成的。” “对于没有知识的人，你们应尽量教给他们知识。社会不办义务教育是有罪的。是社会制造了黑暗，它应对此负责。人的心灵充满黑暗就会犯罪。真正有罪的，并非是犯罪的人，而是造成他心灵黑暗的人。” 雨果: 黑暗笼罩着整个世界，但思想却光芒四射，无比灿烂。 雨果: 人的智慧掌握着三把钥匙，一把开启数字，一把开启字母，一把开启音符。知识、思想、幻想就在其中。 like something in Anthony Burgess: he was always honest and straight to the point in his writing. “no good blaming it on other people,” “we’re prone to evil,” “our problem is to learn how to live with it. it’s not to pretend that there are solutions.” though his answer to the question of “on what occasions do you lie” is that “when I write, when I speak and when I sleep.” he wrote about many writers. when he mentioned of The Lord of The Rings by Tolkien, he noticed that there was no sex in the story and there are full of men and men-like dwarves, elves and other monsters but women. (yes, there are wives and daughters in the story but not significant roles for the fantasy.) ...

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face.” – George Orwell, 1984 “Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” – George Orwell, 1984 ...

In the ballroom of the cosmos, we dance with the stars and the moon, each step in rhythm with the heartbeat of the universe, In this dance of eternity, love is our tune. -- Rumi Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. – Dune You want to control people, you tell them a Messiah will come. Then they’ll wait, for centuries. – Chani, Dune by Frank Herbert ...

The Seven Social Evils are: Politics without principle, Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce and industry without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Frederick Lewis Donaldson, 1860-1953 in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925 “Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” – Bob Marley 陆游的《钗头凤·红酥手》 红酥手，黄縢酒，满城春色宫墙柳。 东风恶，欢情薄。一怀愁绪，几年离索。错、错、错。 春如旧，人空瘦，泪痕红浥鲛绡透。 桃花落，闲池阁。山盟虽在，锦书难托。莫、莫、莫！ 滕王阁序 《丁登寺旁》（Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey）—— 威廉·华兹华斯 (William Wordsworth) “And I have felt / A presence that disturbs me with the joy / Of elevated thoughts…"（我感受到一种存在，它因崇高思想的狂喜而令我震撼……） ...

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter to take. – Anton Chekhov I tell my students, “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” – Toni Morrison (1931-2019) ...

“I think we all wear armor. I think those who don’t are fools, risking the pain of being wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I’ve learned anything from those fools, it is that to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are.” – Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals ...

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde The deepest form of slavery is the hunger for being understood. - Fyodor Dostoevsky 人们最爱用这一种思想来欺骗自己；往往当我们因为自己行为不慎而遭逢不幸的时候，我们就会把我们的灾祸归怨于日月星辰，好像我们做恶人也是命中注定，做傻瓜也是出于上天的旨意，做无赖，做盗贼，做叛徒，都是受到天体运行的影响，酗酒，造谣，奸淫，都有一颗什么星在那儿主持操纵，我们无论干什么罪恶的行为，全都是因为有一种超自然的力量在冥冥之中驱策着我们。– 李尔王 第一幕 第二场 EDMUND: This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting-on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon’s tail and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. ...

ogni lasciata è persa. One life, live it. or Opportunity seldom knocks twice. – Italian proverb Donald Knuth: “programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.” (for vibe coding, it’s just a tool. if you are using it to confuse other programmers and make it hard for people to understand the code, then it is not programming.) None of us is as smart as all of us. (this is talking about the market.) ...

a healthy oil company has a geologist in charge, a mature one has an engineer in charge, a declining one has an accountant in charge, and a dying one has a lawyer in charge. – Oil industry proverb “The mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.” – John Kenneth Galbraith on the Great Crash of 1929 20260524: Today’s the day Arsenal get their hands on the Premier League trophy in 22 years. The victory is a testament to never giving up, to believing you can do the impossible, to knowing that hope is perpetually justified, and most importantly to never ever accepting that something is done. ...

塞翁失马，焉知非福 欲望的尽头总是无法满足。好奇的尽头可能是知晓领悟也可能迷惘困惑。 西汉·刘安《淮南子·人间训·塞翁失马》 近塞上之人有善术者，马无故亡而入胡。人皆吊之，其父曰：“此何遽不为福乎？”居数月，其马将胡骏马而归。人皆贺之，其父曰：“此何遽不能为祸乎？”家富良马，其子好骑，堕而折其髀。人皆吊之，其父曰：“此何遽不为福乎？”居一年，胡人大入塞，丁壮者引弦而战。近塞之人，死者十九。此独以跛之故，父子相保。故福之为祸，祸之为福，化不可极深不可测也。 investment and market gold The price of gold has an inverse correlation with US dollar. When the dollar is strong, the price of gold falls. It has something to do with the interest too because gold has no interest. So if the interest is going to rise, then the price of gold might drop. When the inflation is rising, the interest rate may go up. Then the price of gold may drop. In the event of war and other disasters, the price of gold may go up. ...