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I continue to press for equity, for equity offers the fullest possible realization of the individual’s interests in a group context. Or as Ai Lao has put it, “Fairness means making everyone happy.”
The rights that I have strived to defend should be for all to enjoy, but any adverse consequences are for me alone to bear. Awareness of this point gives me mental strength.
Of a thousand years of joys and sorrows Not a trace can be found You who are living, live the best life you can Don’t count on the earth to preserve memory
When a man meets adversity, he yearns for the next generation to be spared the same hardships: children represent the exile’s ultimate hope, for if one loses one’s child, one’s exodus is futile.
When an individual’s memory or a people’s memory cannot endure, the sadness that remains is a bottomless black hole.
No one can rid themselves of the imprint of their era’s language and culture, and art serves simply as a pioneer for collective reflection: it offers a chance for a group, or a nation, to become alert to an issue, and to enhance its awareness of things.
Can a civilization that is built on the misfortune of others carry on forever?
Self-expression is central to human existence. Without the sound of human voices, without warmth and color in our lives, without attentive glances, Earth is just an insensate rock suspended in space.
