The secret of my reading is: don't read the man in the book, don't look for something to his taste, look for the taste. In my opinion, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Wagner are not four people, but a person who knows everything-or this "one person" is sometimes pessimistic, sometimes happy, sometimes serious and sometimes at a loss. I want to ask, is there anyone who has been sad since childhood, or who laughs all day long?
Nietzsche has both Hamlet and Don Quixote. I like his Hamlet better and often laugh at his Don Quixote. It seems too difficult to read Nietzsche now-many people are reading his Don Quixote.
In China, Confucianism deeply controls the soul of China people. Liang Qichao, Zhang Taiyan, Hu Shi and Lu Xun all opposed Confucius, and finally they were all shrouded in the shadow of Confucius. China's collective subconscious is such a servile idealism. You need someone to lean on.
I think if a book can shock me three times, I will love him all my life.
Don't say that literature is lofty and great. Literature is lovely. Don't give up literature after class. Literature is human studies. At least, read books every day.
When you start reading, you should be easy to understand and condescending from the beginning.
Books in the world can be divided into two categories, one is suitable for deep reading and the other is suitable for shallow reading. A book that should be read easily, if read deeply, has been trapped and controlled. Nietzsche's books should be read deeply. You should study lightly, be proud, be conceited, study deeply and study yourself.
If you read the Tao Te Ching lightly, you will have strategies, tricks and cunning. If you read it deeply, you will be refined into ideological inner-family kung fu. If you read Li Sao deeply, you will love your country. If you read it lightly, you will be beautiful and good. "Everything is wrong" should also be looked down upon.
Camus, Sartre, they are not outsiders themselves. They are very persistent utilitarians. They pretended to be indifferent. A persistent person describes indifference, and a so-called person shows indifference, which is the hypocrisy of existentialism.
Sartre intervened in the "Cultural Revolution" in China, and he played miserably. In other plays, he acted very successfully. His literature, his wall, is still well written. He has a dramatic side. Wagner, Nietzsche talked about him for a long time, because he still has an artist side.
Does the artist want to get involved in his time or not? My answer: suit yourself. Specifically: second-rate writers, it is best to dabble. First-class, can intervene but not intervene. That's great. He has nothing to do with the times.
A poet, with a slight bad failure, will be finished, vulgar and unable to write good poems. I have haiku: "Muse, regardless of modern poetry." Fortunately, poetry is really amazing. A vulgar and poetic God will not give you anything. The poet has a bad temper.
Simon is in no hurry to succeed. He has been writing for more than forty years, and almost every novel is a success. How does he live? Zhuangzi is a beggar, Tao Yuanming borrows rice, and Simon is French after all. He grows grapes and insists on writing. In this way, I am relieved for him-if only Tao Qian didn't grow chrysanthemums and grapes!
Where is my ideological system and outlook on life? You can't find it in my book. I know that getting those things is being fooled. My relationship with Nietzsche is like Zhuang Zhou's relationship with butterflies. He is my spiritual lover. Now this lover is old. For fifty years.
Literature is the art of the brain, silent and colorless, which has nothing to do with the senses, but touches you. The most amazing thing is literature. You are touched-just a few words!
Jin Ping Mei, Water Margin and The Journey to the West were called the three fantastic books at that time. These three wonderful books, one for men, one for children and one for women. "Water Margin" is dominated by men, even if women shoot it. Journey to the west is childlike, and when I say show it to children, I mean childlike adults. The description of women's gender in Jin Ping Mei is extremely detailed, which is almost a modern so-called psychological novel.
Woolf said that Shakespeare and Tolstoy are bisexual, and they are much richer than ordinary people.
Artists and thinkers must be heretics in any era and society. What's the point? Because artists and thinkers will always criticize this era and this society in any era and society.
Since Baudelaire, the writing style of literature has changed from outside to inside. For malamei, we are smarter. Seeing that the world is about to change, we can't compete with the world, so we have to return to our hearts and maintain stability. He no longer shows reality, but only writes about inner activities. He said: "Express the mystery of our lives and give us a sense of reality to complete our spiritual achievements." Access to perfection. Very tolerant. And Valerie. As a student of Malamei, he said more clearly: the poet's talent is to create a world that has nothing to do with practical affairs.
After all, many scholars in China are Confucian scholars. Confucianism, not being an official for three months, is anxious. It is also a pleasure to invite the housekeeper to drink.
Literature is lovely. Life is interesting. Art has to be sacrificed.
Excerpt from: Mu Xin's Literary Memoirs.