And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine, Since the world can in no way answer our craving, I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.

Li Bai
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  1. There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.

  2. No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.

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  5. You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

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