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But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Oregon
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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All birth is unwilling.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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