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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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time
inspirational
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Pearl S. Buck |
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74e659b
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The rich are always afraid.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover,
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Pearl S. Buck |
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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women-s-rights
women
empowerment
women-s-liberation
double-standards
inequality
prison
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Pearl S. Buck |
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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad
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Pearl S. Buck |
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It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.
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You are free when you gain back yourself," Madame Wu said. "You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be ..
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You are right," he had said. "Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, 'Know thy neighbor as thyself." That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love."
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Pearl S. Buck |
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And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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men
equality
women-s-rights
world
women
women-s-liberation
gender
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Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone care..
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French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other."
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Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let it flow. There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. There was always more. Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon..
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power-of-women
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Pearl S. Buck |
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However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
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woman
women
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Pearl S. Buck |
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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eternal
jews
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Happiness was waiting to be chosen.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless. She knew she was immortal.
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love
wisdom
soul
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored -- it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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prejudice
empathy
indifference
race
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Pearl S. Buck |
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He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.
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christianity
crucifix
perspective
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Pearl S. Buck |
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To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
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eternal-wonder
rann
the-eternal-wonder
pearl-s-buck
quotes-about-life
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Andre had been telling her an ancient legend of the fall of man into evil. It came about, he said, by the hand of a woman, Eve, who gave man forbidden fruit. "And how was this woman to know that the fruit was forbidden?" Madame Wu had inquired. "An evil spirit, in the shape of a serpent, whispered it to her," Andre had said. "Why to her instead of to the man?" she had inquired. "Because he knew that her mind and her heart were fixed not upo..
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
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philosophical
the-eternal-wonder
pearl-s-buck
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Pearl S. Buck |
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50493ea
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Hunger makes thief of any man.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage--and indeed perhaps more.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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God--if there is a God--would not choose one man above another or one people above another.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.
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inspirational
the-eternal-wonder
pearl-s-buck
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Pearl S. Buck |
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b29ed5e
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated -- and turned out to grass.
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men
women-s-rights
women
empowerment
education
women-s-liberation
inequality
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.
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If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)"
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the-good-earth
silver
work-ethic
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Pearl S. Buck |
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d4801e9
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To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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You must set forth and find the center of your interest. You are a creator, but you must find your interest and then dedicate yourself to that interest--not to the act of creativity. Merely to want to create will make it impossible for you to do so. You must find an interest greater than yourself--a love, perhaps--and then the power to create will set you on fire.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
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understanding
fate
self-determination
destiny
education
ignorance
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Pearl S. Buck |
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087ef10
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It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
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opening-lines
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Pearl S. Buck |
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58af2d9
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Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping. Of all those women who followed Wang Lung in his coffin, his w..
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Pearl S. Buck |
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I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.
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Pearl S. Buck |
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07723ea
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And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.
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Pearl S. Buck |