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I hand the cage to him and he takes it firmly in his arms.
'Your hankie smells nice,' he says, almost in a whisper.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

would you dare to love me?

The trees part before her slender form and close in again behind me. The roads weave a vast labyrinth, and I am lost.

The world in which we live is no more real than a moon beam reflected in water drawn from the palm of the hand ...

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.

My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

Every man has to die. Choosing oblivion is the only way of triumphing over this.

I try very hard to keep my eyes open so that I can look at my beloved.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.

I am terrified by the dizzying pleasure of it: I am both here and over there; I am be and I am no longer me!
Am I already dead?

I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust.
Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.