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This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.
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Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in ..
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He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.
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I would ask my teacher a question," Yehonala said. "Ask," Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side. "When may I paint a picture of my own?" Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. "When I can no longer command you."
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Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved--
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Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?
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I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.
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When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.
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Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused."
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None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.
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I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are kind. I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides ho..
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And as she had learned to do, while she pondered on large things, she acted on small ones.
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Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
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But hers was a strange heart, sad in its very nature, and she could never weep and ease it as other women do, for her tears never brought her comfort.
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Then Wang Lung turned to the woman and looked at her for the first time. She had a square, honest face, a short, broad nose with large black nostrils, and her mouth was wide as a gash in her face. Her eyes were small and of a dull black in color, and were filled with some sadness that was not clearly expressed. It was a face that seemed habitually silent and unspeaking, as though it could not speak if it would. She bore patiently Wang Lung'..
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Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever.
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It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.
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les gens se sentent seuls quand ils revent .
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Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.
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The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything--or nothing.
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In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.
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Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when she was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.
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When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.
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and his voice came from him in a whisper,
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There was no need to hurry that future--yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?
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This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.
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Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired. 'They are one and the same,' he replied... 'There is only one true God. He has many names.' 'Then anywhere upon the round earth, by whatever seas, those who believe in any God believe in the One?' she asked. 'And so are brothers,' he said, agreeing. 'And if I do not believe in any?' she inquired willfully.
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I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault."
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Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71)." --
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For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.
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I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul."
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What shall I do?" she asked in a small voice. "Forget your own self," he said. "But all these years," she urged, "I have so carefully fulfilled my duty." "Always with the thought of your own freedom in your mind," he said. She could not deny it. She sat motionless, her hands folded on the pearl-gray satin of her robe. "Direct me," she said at last. "Instead of your own freedom, think how you can free others," he said gently. She lifted her..
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Liz, it's so easy to say 'I'm sorry.' It costs nothing and it saves a mint of pain. Those two words are the common coin of daily life, but especially between people who love each other.
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They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.
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When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to al..
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As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.
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Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.
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And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.
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Through these seventeen years of your life I have had this hour of your marriage in mind. In everything I have taught you I have considered two persons, the mother of your husband and your husband. For her sake I have taught you how to prepare and to present tea to an elder; how to stand in an elder's presence; how to listen in silence while an elder speaks whether in praise or blame; in all things I have taught you to submit yourself as a ..
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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...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
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I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.
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To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.
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Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself."
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It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The"
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