If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!