Empress Dowager Cixi quotes
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“Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.”
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“Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.”
-- Empress Dowager CixiSource : "The Siege at Peking". Book by Peter Fleming, p. 226, 1959.
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“Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?”
-- Empress Dowager CixiSource : "The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.
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“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
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“In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.”
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“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
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