“The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
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“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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