106. You're mistaken!
This fragrance in my clothes is not attar, this is the incense from my tombstone!
107. In this life before you came I was alone, no one beside me.
In this life after you came I am no longer alone, loneliness is beside me.
108. Small-mindedness in high places, grand pretensions in lowly spots— is this the way of small people!?
109. When friendship sours with someone, you spread their secrets to everyone. But when you spread them even before the friendship breaks, how can you still hope they'll stay friends with you?
110. Will anyone buy my words?
It won't cost much; I'll sell for less than it took to make them!
Buy them, you'll profit. What it cost me to make, you can sell for much more!
111. Some wear masks to deceive people, others wear masks to know people.
112. War means cooking in empty pots, war means orphaned children's tears.
113. Come late! When even the afterglow of waiting fades, what else remains, tell me!
114. Strong smoke, strong kiss, strong life.
115. All your old embraces gathered together into a noose— today I died and lived.
116. There, not rain— I gave you a rainbow! Happy now?
What you see as rainbow in your eyes is the tears from mine.
117. When all the leaves are about to fall, just before dropping that final leaf, doesn't the tree feel like crying?
118. Going up the stairs I return to that childhood.
Coming down the stairs I return to this adulthood.
119. One who has no chance to be dishonest— their claims of honesty cannot be blindly trusted, for it remains untested.
120. When walls appear on the path ahead, I know I'm on the right track!
121. Some people go to university.
Others become universities themselves.
What can be seen gets certificates. What cannot be seen— what certificate for that?
122. Today you're firing bullets, fire away!
The wind will change one day. That day, to take back these bullets, bare your chest!
123. Oh, what have I done!
Today the story that will need erasing I wrote in ink, and the story that won't need erasing I wrote in pencil!
124. For a thousand years I've been breaking like clouds.
Keep your umbrella, I won't need it.
125. These days when I see you laugh, my heart trembles!
126. Wash your hands before you touch me.
Those hands still carry the scent of murder.
127. If you can die for your own reasons alone, you are truly blessed!
128. Those who harass people for no reason— rather than mix with them, befriend a street dog instead— you'll learn much more.
129. Those who can't tolerate people in higher positions than themselves— the more you mix with them, the more you'll lose the ability to rise higher.
130. You'll fight with a pig yet not get dirty— how is that possible!?
When you see a pig, don't argue— just put it in the pen!
131. The first qualification for arguing with a goat is learning to eat jackfruit leaves!
132. In just two fairy tales my whole life ends: you, me!
133. Turn off the light, I'll thread the needle.
Sleep sleeps, darkness wakes.
134. Because raising children is hard, people pamper others' children and discipline their own.
And those who raise others' children too— these great souls are called teachers.
135. Those who can, do and show. Those who can't, talk and tell.
136. My future sold for a high price! You can buy my past free of charge!
And the present? What doesn't exist must first be brought before it can be bought! Who'll take such responsibility!
137. Life's mistakes stored in forgetfulness accrue interest!
138. Men never forget the woman they wanted to sleep with but couldn't. Women never forget the man they first slept with.
139. Exiled in the middle of the ocean, I survive on memory's breath alone.
Your home, my exile.
In your sin's pleasure, my virtue's punishment.
140. Don't look at me, look at my laughter— there your desire's scent is clear.
Don't look at my laughter, look at me— there my desire's scent is clear.