Han Suyin Quotes

#1. A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...

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#2. We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

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#3. I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

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#4. Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...

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#5. There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

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#6. People never think about words, they only feel them.

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#7. And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

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#8. All humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own eternity of aloneness. And love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. - The Mountain is Young

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#9. No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...

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#10. Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

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#11. One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

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#12. Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

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#13. There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

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#14. This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

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#15. It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

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#16. The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

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#17. Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

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#18. People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

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#19. There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.

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#20. Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

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#21. Sadness is so ungrateful.

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