A Dream of Red Mansions Quotes
Chinese novels
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“Wang Chi-chen”
“Dream of the Red Chamber”
“Girls are made of water, men of mud.”
“A real scholar can afford to be eccentric.”
“Who can guess the outcome of a game of chess?”
“Would that my heart were pure as the moon in the sky.”
“If you agree to this name, madam, she's sure to live to a ripe old age.”
“However much water there is in the stream, one gourdful will suffice me.”
“But lend me strength, good wind,
To soar up to the azure sky at last.”
“Only at the end of the road does one think of turning on to the right track.”
“We villagers are simple honest folk who eat according to the size of our bowl.”
“[Daiyu] raised a sudden cry: "Baoyu, Baoyu! How...." Those were her last words.”
“Resentment at a low official rank
May lead to fetters and a felon's shame.”
“So talented and high-minded,
She is born too late for luck to come her way.”
“Since childhood, [Baoyu] had been intimate with Daiyu, finding her a kindred spirit.”
“Her sweet soul gone with the wind,
They sorrow at midnight, lost in fragrant dreams.”
“Men laugh at my folly in burying fallen flowers,
But who will bury me when dead I lie?”
“Who sowed the seeds of love?
From the strong passion of breeze and moonlight they came.”
“A stork's shadow flit across the chilly pool
The poet's spirit is buried in cold moonlight.”
“As blossoms fade and fly across the sky,
Who pities the faded red, the scent that has been?”