To write is to leave a mark, to say: I was here, I existed.

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

【译文】力气单薄就不要去背负重物，说话没分量就不要规劝别人。没有钱就不要到人群中去，遇到危难千万别去求亲戚。

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

出自《史记·货殖列传》，马伯庸在作品中引用。

我们无法选择自己的命运，但我们可以选择如何面对它。