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"I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."
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"The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear."
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"The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman."
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"To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you."
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"The sweetest song is the beautiful smile of a loving woman."
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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
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"People are prettiest when they smile with joy."
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"Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty."
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"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."
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"Be kind like a flower and know that life is beautiful like springtime."
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"True beauty does not shine, it attracts."
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"China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there."
People
"I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."
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"I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."
Beauty
"I always wanted to be a writer."
Ambition
"I feel perhaps my heart is still in China."
Heart
"When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family."
Family
"I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned."
Love
"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."
Family
"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."
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"At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general."
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