Qiu Miaojin Quotes

#1. We have nothing to fear but insincerity.

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#2. Love is not merely need alone, & what is more important is loving you, & making my true nature comprehensible to you.

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#3. My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.

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#4. I love my own kind - womankind.

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#5. Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

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#6. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.

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#7. The whole of March 18 was so poetically and emotionally satisfying that I went a little wild.

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#8. She gave me a puzzle in a box. She put the pieces together patiently, one by one, and completed the picture of me.

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#9. And on it flows. I long to lie down quietly by the banks of a blue lake and die ... and when I'm dead for my body to be consumed by birds and beasts, leaving only the bone of my brow for Xu ... like Alexander, loyal to an everlasting love.

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