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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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All birth is unwilling.
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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