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“It is not a weakness to be seen”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“He never managed to articulate what it was he didn’t know, but I knew his meaning. I don’t know how much suffering is normal.
How much was ordinary, expected, the price we paid to live.
How much was created by us, needless.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“Everyone believes their own cause is noble.” “Then may everyone do what they must to win.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“How unfair it was, I could not help but think, that the most wicked of us also got to be the most invincible.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress