To live in the midst of danger is to know how good life is, his father replied. But if we are lost in the danger? Kino asked anxiously. To live in the presence of death makes us brave and strong, Kino...
This monumental work, Taijang-Kyung, is now preserved in eternity in the Hal-in-sa Temple, Mount Kaya, in the province
There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love a...
The first question I can answer, but the second is difficult indeed, for endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be...
So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied wi...
She smiled over a heap of flowered summery lawn she had in her lap and threaded her needle again with pink silk.
She is tired to the heart, Ying muttered. She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children.
It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.
It was in those days that I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead,He goes astray.But if he follows, he finds guidance.It is favourable to find friends in the West and South, and quiet perseverance brings good...
IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror...
French is the most beautiful, he said, and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
But somewhere 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.
As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has...
All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people, have been misled by our own sages through the last four thous...
Want to go where my children never hear that a man’s color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.
Don’t know what to tell you, he said slowly. I have not had time to think much about myself. Wherever I have been—at least until now, I have been mostly alone. The others were always much bigger—much...
But in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake’s sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—...
And they looked with coming hatred and with fear upon this young man, saying in their hearts they knew he lied, because they could not believe there was in the whole world a man who would choose an ea...
Wyeth was perhaps stupid. No, he was not stupid, he was surrounded and isolated by comfort.