James Poy Wong 黃培正
"When you walk towards light, your shadow is behind you. When you walk away from the light, the shadow is in front leading you."
"Residues" - 1944.
渣滓
把別人底悲哀和痛苦， 來作自己的娛樂是最殘忍的。
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沒有痛苦，就不能有快樂的慾望產生，更加不知道什麼是快樂。
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流血是一件事。 爭自由是另一件事。
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沒有法律就沒有罪惡。 沒有人類就沒有戰爭。 人如果永遠不會去死，戰爭 也不會存在。
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向着光明走的時候， 影是在人的後面。背着光明走的時候，影是領導着在前面。
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歷史不是循環的。 歷史是沿着大螺旋前進的。
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假如我們的生命是如此短速，我們在太陽將落的時候出現，在夜深的時候消失。 那麼我們會覺得黑暗的恐怖，對於那死去的太陽會感到悲哀。 偉大的太陽在血的掙扎中死去了。 從此沒有光明，沒有溫暖. 永遠不能看見，也不會想到，明天太陽會一樣地出來，把它的光輝溫暖這個大地。 可是我們 却在黑暗中渴望着那永不會再來的光明而死去了。
過去的事固然是過去的事， 但是過去事並不是完成的事呀！
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如果愛是需要的， 那麼悲哀也是需要的。
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無論怎麼說， 總是沒有天堂和地獄這樣的東西。如果有的話，那麼都是我們所居住的這塊土地。 我們現在的世界就是地獄, 努力改良後的世界就是 天堂。我們既然明白了，為什麼不去奮鬥呢？ 為什麼要自殺去追求那沒有的東西呢？天堂只是人類創造的造品。 或許也是人生的目的了。我們現在的努力就是追求將來的地基。 那麼我們為什麼不生存下去呢？
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社會像一個重担。 生活像一根鞭子。
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戰爭的動機是利益， 戰爭的對象是毀滅，戰爭的結果是死亡。
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每次追求真理只走一半的路程，可以縮短和真理的距離，却永遠不能達到真理的。
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Dross
It is an extreme cruelty to take others’ sadness and pain for one’s own entertainment.
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Without pain there will not be desire to generate happiness and we further don’t know what happiness is.
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Shedding blood is one thing; fighting for freedom is another thing.
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Without law there will be no crimes. Without humans there will be no wars. If human beings never die, war will also not exist.
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When you walk towards light, your shadow is behind you. When you walk away from the light, the shadow is in front leading you.
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History is not cyclical. History progresses in a spiral path.
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If our lives are so short that we only appear when the sun is almost down and we disappear in the late night, then we would feel the horror of darkness and sadness towards the departed sun. The great sun died through a bloody struggle. Thereby, there is no light and no warmth, and forever we don’t see the sun again. We would not think the sun will appear as usual tomorrow and its light will warm this earth. But we will die in darkness yearning for the light that never returns.
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The past event certainly is a past event, but a past event is not a completed event.
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If love is necessary, then sadness is also necessary.
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No matter how you say it, there are no such things as heaven and hell. If there are, they are just this land we live on. Our present world is like hell, but it will become heaven after we put in effort to reform the world. Now that we have understood this, why are we not striving for it? Why should one commit suicide to seek for something that does not exist? Heaven is a creation of mankind, and perhaps it is the purpose of life. The reason for our effort now is to pursue the base for the future. Then why don’t we continue living?
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Society is like a heavy load, and living is a whip.
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The motive of war is profit; the object of war is destruction; the result of war is death.
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If we only go halfway in the pursuit of truth each time , we are able to shorten the distance to the truth, but we can never reach the truth.
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