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Life is stronger than death.
— Pearl S. Buck
Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
— Pearl S. Buck
To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
— Pearl S. Buck
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
— Pearl S. Buck
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
— Pearl S. Buck
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
— Pearl S. Buck
The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children,
— Pearl S. Buck
Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).
— Pearl S. Buck
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
— Pearl S. Buck
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
— Pearl S. Buck
From the stars," she thought, "doubtless all things are seen.
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For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
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The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.
— Pearl S. Buck
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
— Pearl S. Buck
To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
— Pearl S. Buck
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage - and indeed perhaps more.
— Pearl S. Buck
Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
— Pearl S. Buck
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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Only very coarse persons wanted wars.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
— Pearl S. Buck
The heart never grows old.
— Pearl S. Buck
Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
— Pearl S. Buck
To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
— Pearl S. Buck
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
— Pearl S. Buck
I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.
— Pearl S. Buck
Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.
— Pearl S. Buck
If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?
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All that had been was now no more.
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This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.
— Pearl S. Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
— Pearl S. Buck
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
— Pearl S. Buck
When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.
— Pearl S. Buck
This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
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The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
— Pearl S. Buck
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin ... For me that house was a gateway to America.
— Pearl S. Buck
thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes
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All birth is unwilling.
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Happiness was waiting to be chosen.
— Pearl S. Buck
The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
— Pearl S. Buck
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
— Pearl S. Buck
It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The
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You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.
— Pearl S. Buck
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
— Pearl S. Buck
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.
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Believing in gods always causes confusion.
— Pearl S. Buck
We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.
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When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
— Pearl S. Buck
The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything - or nothing.
— Pearl S. Buck
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
— Pearl S. Buck
In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.
— Pearl S. Buck
You seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
— Pearl S. Buck
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
— Pearl S. Buck
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
— Pearl S. Buck
In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
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The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.
— Pearl S. Buck
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.
— Pearl S. Buck
if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.
— Pearl S. Buck
The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.
— Pearl S. Buck
Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?
— Pearl S. Buck
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
— Pearl S. Buck
And looked sharply across the street. There was only one house
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
— Pearl S. Buck
There is no beauty without order.
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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
To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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What seems new is only new to us.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
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It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
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And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.
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What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.
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The superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.
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The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.
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