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“Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.”
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
“You will always be the Matriarch—the Queen of Hearts. Your hand rocked my cradle, and you ruled my world.”
― The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
― The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“I will chart my own territory. My own course. I will walk on that path that has never been walked before because I am not afraid of the unknown.”
― The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
― The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“I was particularly fascinated by the story of the circumstances that led to the development of tertiary education in China. It seems hard to imagine—but there was a time when institutionalized education, formal curricula and exams didn’t exist.”
― The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
― The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”
― The Discovery of India
― The Discovery of India
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