Classic quotes from "Dream of the Red Chamber"

 1. Lacking the talent to mend the heavens, I've wasted so many years in this mortal world.

2. When power fails, don't speak of nobility; when the family perishes, don't speak of kinship.
3. Endless tears of longing fall like red beans; endless spring willows and flowers bloom in the painted pavilion.
4. When spring ends, beauty fades; flowers fall, and people die, both unaware!
5. Ten thousand taels of gold are easy to obtain, but a true friend is hard to find.
6. Insight into worldly affairs is knowledge; mastery of human relationships is literature.
7. I wish I had wings today, to fly with the flowers to the ends of the earth. 8.
One is a celestial flower from the fairy garden, the other a flawless jade. If there's no predestined fate, why did we meet in this life? If there is a predestined fate, why did our love end in vain?
9. In the beginning of chaos, who was the seed of love? All for the sake of passionate love.
10. When it comes to bitterness, the absurdity is all the more tragic; we all share the same dream, so don't laugh at the foolishness of the world!
11. A heart ailment must be cured by a heart remedy; the one who tied the knot must untie it.
12. A humble room, an empty hall, once filled with officials' tablets; withered grass and dry willows, once a stage for song and dance; spiderwebs now cover the carved beams, green gauze now covers the thatched windows.
13. People live in two places, but their hearts are one.
14. What is there to grieve or rejoice in this vast emptiness? What is there to talk about intimacy or distance?
15. Who would have thought I'd end up in a brothel! Disliking the small official hat, I'm now in chains; yesterday I pitied the tattered coat in the cold, today I dislike the long purple robe: in this chaotic scene, one act ends and another begins, mistaking a foreign land for home. How absurd! In the end, I'm just making wedding clothes for someone else!
16. Righteousness cannot tolerate evil, and evil is jealous of righteousness.
17. Desiring purity, yet never truly pure; the clouds in the sky are not necessarily empty. Pity the precious jade, ultimately trapped in the mire.
18. Everyone says it's a perfect match, but I only remember the vow made before the wood and stone. I gaze in vain at the pure snow of the mountain hermit; I will never forget the lonely forest of the fairy maiden beyond the world.
19. Without me, you are not truly me; he does not understand her, so I roam freely, coming and going as I please.
20. Spring dreams scatter with the clouds, fallen petals drift with the water; a message to all children: why seek idle sorrow?
21. When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood; when nothingness is taken for existence, even existence becomes nothingness.
22. Spring dreams scatter with the clouds, fallen petals drift with the water; a message to all children: why seek idle sorrow?
23. When it comes to bitterness, absurdity becomes all the more tragic. We all share the same dream; do not laugh at the foolishness of the world!
24. With whom can I hide my solitary pride and disdain for the world? Why does the same flower bloom so late?
25. Xiangling's roots and lotus share a single fragrance; her life's experiences are truly heartbreaking. Since two lonely trees grew in different places, her fragrant soul returned to her hometown.
26. Too clever by half, she schemed her own demise.
27. Qingwen's clear moon is hard to find, colorful clouds easily disperse. Her heart is higher than the heavens, her status lowly. Her charm and cleverness invite resentment. Many die young due to slander; the sentimental young master's heart is left empty.
28. Full of absurd words, a handful of bitter tears. Everyone says the author is foolish, but who understands the true meaning?

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