Frailty Quote by Qiu Xiaolong
““I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.””
““I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.””
![“It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken…” quote by Peter Matthiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd5/peter-matthiessen-5795_coins_it-is-related-that-sakyamuni-the-histori_2779547.jpg)
![“The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.” quote by Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/176/julian-barnes-522_buried_the-writer-s-life-is-full-of-frailty-and_181140.jpg)
