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“From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?”
― Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms

tags: virtue

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“It is made up of one character each from the names of three of the major female protagonists of the novel (P'an Chin-lien, Li P'ing-erh, and P'ang Ch'un-mei) that would literally mean Gold Vase Plum; it can be semantically construed as The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Plum Blossoms in a Golden Vase; and it puns with three near homophones that might be rendered as The Glamour of Entering the Vagina.”
― David Tod Roy, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering

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“When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart.”
― Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei

tags: romantic, wisdom

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“When all dreams wane, same are loss and gain”
― Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms

tags: spirituality

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