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“Having been made to suffer by the religion of romantic love, we wanted to be saved by the religion of family. If we could succeed in truly brainwashing our entire bodies, I had the feeling we could finally forget romantic love.”
― Sayaka Murata, Vanishing World

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“For the truth, he lost his dreams. For his little sister, he lost his health. To defeat his illness, he lost his reason to live. And to recover his reason to live, he lost his sense of peace and tranquility.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben, Vol. 1

tags: loss

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“It was precisely that struggle between ignorance and enlightenment, understanding and intolerance, human thought and bestial instinct, that allowed human civilization to leave a trail of bloody footprints on the banks of the endless river of history.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 5

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“Xie Qingcheng, doesn’t it hurt…? All these years, haven’t you been in pain? Haven’t you…been lonely…?”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 4

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“But we lived in a hierarchy that favored men. Women, be it peasant or lady, first wife or mentor wives, were pitches against each other, fighting among themselves for scraps of power and security.”
― Jane Yang, The Lotus Shoes

tags: men, patriarchy, rights, women

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