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“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...
- Wang Lung”
― The Good Earth
- Wang Lung”
― The Good Earth
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.”
― The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
― The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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