This sentence comes from Sanmao's "Speak to Myself".
Original text:
Tell it to yourself
Author: Sanmao
If there is an afterlife, be a tree,
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Stand for eternity, without any gestures of joy or sorrow.
Half is peaceful in the dust, half is flying in the wind,
Half is covered with shade, and half is bathed in sunshine.
If there is an afterlife, I want to be a bird.
Fly across eternity without the trouble of getting lost.
There is flaming hope in the east, and a warm nest bed in the south.
Follow the setting sun to the west, and awaken the fragrance to the north.
About the author:
San Mao, formerly known as Chen Mao (mào) Ping (later renamed Chen Ping), is a modern Chinese writer. He was born in Chongqing in 1943. In 1948, he passed away with his parents. Moved to Taiwan. In 1967, he went to Spain to study, and later went to Germany, the United States, etc. In 1973, he settled in the Spanish Sahara Desert and married Jose. After returning to Taiwan in 1981, he taught at the Cultural University. He resigned from the teaching position in 1984 and focused on writing and speaking. Died in hospital on January 4, 1991, at the age of forty-eight.
Writers of essays and novel collections "Stories of the Sahara", "The Crying Camel", "The Rainy Season Will Never Come Again", "Gentle Night", "How Many Flowers Fall in Dreams", "Back View", "My Baby" and more than ten kinds.
Sanmao's prose draws on a wide range of materials, many of which are full of exotic sentiments. The writing style is simple, romantic and unique, expressing the author's love for mankind, life, freedom and nature. His travel prose such as "The Story of the Sahara" and "A Journey Through Thousands of Rivers and Mountains" integrate knowledge, interest and artistry, and have high cultural and aesthetic value. The proses that narrate grief, such as "Clouds in the Green Mountains and Moon in the Sky", "Phoenix", "Back View", "Deja Vu Returns of the Swallow", etc. have a melancholy and indifferent style, which makes them appear sophisticated and more readable.