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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
And what was worship except trust and hope that life and death had meaning because they were created and planned by Heaven?
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility."
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself." "Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know,
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These quivered as it felt itself impaled. The wide wings fluttered and dark spots upon them showed green and gold for a moment. Then the moth was still. "How quickly they die!" Ch'iuming said suddenly.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
As life has proved, it is true that a woman's body is more important than her mind. She alone can create new human creatures. Were it not for her, the race of man would cease to exist. Into her body, as into a chalice, Heaven has put this gift. Her body therefore is inexpressibly precious to man. He is not fulfilled if she does not create. His is the seed, but she alone can bring it to flower and fruit in another being like himself.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when he was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
It was the secret of her power in this house that she never allowed her will to be felt as absolute. She gave time and the promise of an end, and then she used the time to shape events to her own end.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
weak? You must learn to take from a person that which is his best and ignore all else.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Pavilion of Women
From the stars," she thought, "doubtless all things are seen.
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