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Ren
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by Jung Chang
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Ren
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by Jung Chang
bookshelves:
currently-reading,
asian-lit,
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banned-books,
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history,
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“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
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“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
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