

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
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“The cunning waste their pains;
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”
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“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
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