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> [Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/thomas-hardy-once-advised-us-to-record-impressions-more-and-to/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/mu-xin-38935_advice_thomas-hardy-once-advised-us-to-record-i_1511616.png)

> [Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/impressions-are-like-pearls-ideas-are-like-the-string-that-turns-the/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/617/mu-xin-38935_broken_impressions-are-like-pearls-ideas-are-li_2319491.png)

## Other authors on Impressions

## More by Mu Xin

> [The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/the-first-principle-of-modern-cultures-may-be-their-connectedness/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/prose-is-like-a-window-fiction-is-like-a-door-but-it-is-not-uncommon/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/i-feel-that-it-would-be-tedious-for-a-person-to-have-only-one-life-it/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/ideas-can-be-only-in-the-distant-background-of-a-work-of-art/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/if-you-ask-me-why-i-left-china-it-s-just-that-i-went-for-a-stroll-and/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/whoever-first-thought-of-imposing-a-library-fine-was-indeed/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/thomas-hardy-once-advised-us-to-record-impressions-more-and-to/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/did-you-ever-find-that-there-is-room-between-the-two-opposing-rules/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/impressions-are-like-pearls-ideas-are-like-the-string-that-turns-the/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/what-is-art-in-the-final-analysis-art-is-the-shining-forth-of-one-s/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

> [By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mu-xin/by-day-i-was-a-slave-by-night-i-was-a-prince/)

[Mu Xin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mu-xin/)

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