Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.Matsuo Basho
“Marriage is like a besieged fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those who are inside want to get out.”
Writer · 1910 – 1998
Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese scholar and novelist best known for Fortress Besieged (1947), a witty satire of intellectuals in wartime China and one of the great Chinese novels of the twentieth century.
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