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There was no need to hide the fact that for the past ten years he had devoted his life to reading, precisely to avoid following in the footsteps of his father, a “master of the land” (or, to put it another way, a slave to the land).
“People are iron, but food is steel, and hunger will always win out.”
When love first awakens a young person, it bestows a great power.
Meek people rarely get angry, but once they’re angry, they lose control.
When the two of them were alone together at night out in the fields, their love was private. Now, they were displaying their happiness to the entire world. Mostly they felt a sort of dignified pride.
ignorance had quickly defeated science.
She was her own person, and no one had the right to interfere in her pursuits, not even her very loving parents.
Ah, life, which sometimes made reality into fantasy, also made fantasy into reality.
“This is typical bourgeois thinking! You young people are killing me! You’re a decaying generation. Undisciplined and out of control. We should hold a funeral for the revolution!”
‘Gold flowers go with silver flowers, and zucchinis go with pumpkins.’
Older Brother, what a hack Sold his conscience, then came back
