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"The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers."
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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
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Personal Development

"There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."
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"You're sad but you hold everything back..."
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"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."
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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
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"I miss you something awful sometimes."
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
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"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."
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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
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"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
Life

"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."
Faith

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
Man

"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."
Growth

"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."
War

"The narrator refers to a character as 'an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."
Power

"When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there."
Truth

"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."
Journey

"For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home."
Identity

"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."
Ego
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