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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.
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If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.
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go in the direction your head is pointed in.
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boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
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As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!
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When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
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Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.
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