Ding Ling quotes
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“Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.”
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“When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?”
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“In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.”
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“Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.”
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“I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.”
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“But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.”
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“What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.”
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Source : "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.
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“The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
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“What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”
Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”
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