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#1

“Time rushes forward and never back, oblivious of human joy or pain. We cannot but be driven by the tide of life.”
― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

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#2

“Happiness is like a slippery eel. It is hard enough to catch and even harder to hold onto.”
― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans

tags: gender-roles, sexism, social-injustice

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#3

“Look at the flowing water. Water is humble. It always heads to a low point. Water is soft, formless and flexible. It slides meekly and wittily around rocks, and it nurtures the plants on the sides. That way, it is content and it sings. If you are humble, wise and nurturing like water, you will not feel shame. You will have peace.”
― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans

tags: gender-roles, sexism, social-injustice

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#4

“At places where protruding rocks blocked its flow, the river hissed, eddying in ripples and foams, and then wrested its way forward with renewed rigor. For a while Bumbutai stood still, enchanted by the struggling brook, her spirits lifted and were imbued with a refreshing sense of hope. Mother Earth's healing hand could always do wonders to a world-wearied soul.”
― Alice Poon, The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia

tags: forbidden-love, free-spirit, love-of-nature

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#5

“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life's fickleness, she thought.”
― Alice Poon, The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia

tags: cherry-blossoms, ephemeral, inspirational, poetic

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#6

“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas

tags: freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, thinking, tolerance, voltaire

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#7

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#8

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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#9

“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

tags: philosophical

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#10

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#12

“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it was acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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#13

“Please always remember you only live once. Nothing has meaning without life.”
― Alice Poon, The Heavenly Sword

tags: faith, hope, inspirational, life-and-living

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#14

“She was a seductive rose who didn't mind flaunting her deadly thorns. But that didn't change the petal-soft essence of her soul. It was this aching softness that he wanted so much to protect.”
― Alice Poon, The Heavenly Sword

tags: love, romance, soulmates-love

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#15

“But as the good-hearted young man discovers, a hero is not merely born, he is honed in the moments when his love and loyalty are the most sorely tested.”

― Jin Yong”
― Jin Yong, A Hero Born

tags: cultural, fantasty, historical-fiction

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#16

“Yearning endlessly for that surreal rainbow was like addiction to opium. It was a poison pill, yet without it life would be all too vapid and bland.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

tags: inspirational, unfulfilled-love, yearning-for-love

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#17

“Courage is not daring. Courage is persistence when all that's left is hopelessness.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

tags: courage, inspirational

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#18

“You don't talk of playing fair to a bully. It's like playing qin music to a cow.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

tags: fair-play, quid-pro-quo

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#19

“Those wielding absolute power seldom have the wisdom to relieve floods; all they know is how to dam them.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

tags: inspirational, oppression, power-of-thoughts

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