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Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy

by Bryan W. Van Norden

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“Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

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“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: truth

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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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