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Lin Yutang
“Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.”
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

Hermann Hesse
“Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself.”
Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Lin Yutang
“There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.”
lin yutang, The Importance of Living

Lin Yutang
“In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.”
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

Hermann Hesse
“the heart of long-past days continued to live on, in which, still after centuries, the fears and delights of long-since-vanished generations, frozen to stone, offered resistance to the passage of time.”
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

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