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She was a China-born Eurasian, a physician, and author of books in English and French on modern China, novels set in East and Southeast Asia, and autobiographical memoirs which covered the span of modern China. These writings gained her a reputation as an ardent and articulate supporter of the Chinese Communist Revolution. She lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, for many years until her death. </p> <p> Also known as <a href="/profession/13/">Writer</a>, <a href="/profession/163/">Physician</a>, <a href="/profession/5/">Author</a> </p> </div> <span class="more" id="auhtor_info_more" more="more" less="Less">more</span> <ul class="author__about__options"><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Suyin" class="i-wiki" target="_blank" itemprop="url" title="Wikipedia article about Han Suyin"></a></li></ul> </div> </section> <div class="switch"> <ul class="switch-view" role="menu"> <li id="switch_cards" role="menuitem" class="active"><i class="i-cards" title="view_as_cards"></i></li> <li id="switch_list" role="menuitem"><i class="i-list" title="view_as_list"></i></li> </ul> </div> <ul class="quotes--cards"> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/21c231/">Moralists have no place in an art gallery.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="21c231"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="21c231" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/21c231/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Moralists%20have%20no%20place%20in%20an%20art%20gallery.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F21c231%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/423/">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/184/">Place</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/9525/">Moralists</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/32c6a/">Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="32c6a"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="32c6a" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/32c6a/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Love%20from%20one%20being%20to%20another%20can%20only%20be%20that%20two%20solitudes%20come%20nearer%2C%20recognize%20and%20protect%20and%20comfort%20each%20other.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F32c6a%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/41/">Love</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/363/">Protect</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1029/">Comfort</a></li> </ul>  </li> </ul><div class="banner--main">  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1539479904694-1'> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { var slot; var slotName = 'div-gpt-ad-1539479904694-1'; if (screen.width > 1000) { slot = googletag.defineSlot('/150025860/citatis-top', [[728, 90]], slotName).addService(googletag.pubads()); } else { document.getElementById(slotName).classList.add("banner--mobile"); slot = googletag.defineSlot('/150025860/citatis-top', [[336, 280]], slotName).addService(googletag.pubads()); } googletag.display(slotName); googletag.pubads().refresh([slot]); }); </script> </div> </div> <ul class="quotes--cards"> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/31c223/">Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="31c223"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="31c223" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/31c223/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Love%20can%20never%20explain%20the%20loved%20one%2C%20my%20dear.%20It%20is%20the%20essence%20of%20wild%20unreason.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F31c223%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/41/">Love</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/39330/">For Her</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/3422/">Essence</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/01c231/">Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); 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Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="04715"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="04715" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/04715/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=I%20really%20can%27t%20hate%20more%20than%205%20or%2010%20years.%20Wouldn%27t%20it%20be%20terrible%20to%20be%20always%20burdened%20with%20those%20primary%20emotions%20you%20had%20at%20one%20time%3F&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F04715%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/11/">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/55/">Hate</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1028/">Emotions</a></li> </ul>  </li> </ul> <div class="banner--main">  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1539479904694-2'> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { var slot; var slotName = 'div-gpt-ad-1539479904694-2'; if (screen.width > 1000) { slot = googletag.defineSlot('/150025860/citatis-top', [[728, 90]], slotName).addService(googletag.pubads()); } else { document.getElementById(slotName).classList.add("banner--mobile"); slot = googletag.defineSlot('/150025860/citatis-top', [[336, 280]], slotName).addService(googletag.pubads()); } googletag.display(slotName); googletag.pubads().refresh([slot]); }); </script> </div> </div> <ul class="quotes--cards"> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/21c228/">Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="21c228"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="21c228" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/21c228/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Exploitation%20and%20oppression%20is%20not%20a%20matter%20of%20race.%20It%20is%20the%20system%2C%20the%20apparatus%20of%20world-wide%20brigandage%20called%20imperialism%2C%20which%20made%20the%20Powers%20behave%20the%20way%20they%20did.%20I%20have%20no%20illusions%20on%20this%20score%2C%20nor%20do%20I%20believe%20that%20any%20Asian%20nation%20or%20African%20nation%2C%20in%20the%20same%20state%20of%20dominance%2C%20and%20with%20the%20same%20system%20of%20colonial%20profit-amassing%20and%20plunder%2C%20would%20have%20behaved%20otherwise.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F21c228%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/115/">World</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/67/">Believe</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/9506/">Powers</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/01c236/">People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01c236"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01c236" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/01c236/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=People%20bring%20to%20what%20they%20see%20and%20feel%2C%20the%20inner%20weather%20of%20their%20souls%20and%20complexion%20of%20their%20minds.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F01c236%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/92/">People</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/8/">Minds</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/4257/">Souls</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/21c229/">We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="21c229"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="21c229" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/21c229/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=We%20are%20all%20products%20of%20our%20time%2C%20vulnerable%20to%20history.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F21c229%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/11/">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/255/">History</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1236/">Products</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/01c232/">All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01c232"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01c232" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/01c232/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=All%20humans%20are%20frightened%20of%20their%20own%20solitude.%20But%20only%20in%20solitude%20can%20we%20learn%20to%20know%20ourselves%2C%20learn%20to%20handle%20our%20own%20eternal%20aloneness.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F01c232%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/7849/">Humans</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1483/">Solitude</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/9508/">Aloneness</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/31c220/">Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); 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Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01c233"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01c233" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/01c233/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=This%20is%20Malaya.%20Everything%20takes%20a%20long%2C%20a%20very%20long%20time%2C%20in%20Malaya.%20Things%20get%20done%2C%20occasionally%2C%20but%20more%20often%20they%20don%27t%2C%20and%20the%20more%20in%20a%20hurry%20you%20are%2C%20the%20quicker%20you%20break%20down.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F01c233%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/11/">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/268/">Long</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/180/">Done</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/01c23b/">History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01c23b"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01c23b" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/01c23b/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=History%2C%20the%20winnowing%20wind%2C%20never%20halts.%20We%20see%20the%20chaff%20rise%2C%20forget%20the%20waiting%20grain%2C%20seed%20of%20the%20future%2C%20fallen%20to%20the%20threshing%20floor.%20We%20never%20learn%2C%20but%20live%20on%2C%20slit-narrow%2C%20as%20if%20our%20living%20were%20a%20pencil%20line%20traced%20upon%20paper%2C%20behaving%20as%20trapped%20denizens%20of%20a%20flat%20world%20hemmed%20in%20by%20the%20bigoted%20horizon%20of%20our%20own%20making.%20Yet%20the%20meaning%20of%20living%20is%20a%20pushing%20back%2C%20a%20pulling%20down%20of%20the%20great%20walls%20and%20domes%20of%20fear%20and%20ignorance%2C%20is%20relinquishing%20the%20nest%20for%20the%20sky%2C%20ignorance%20for%20understanding.%20The%20look%20back%20is%20also%20a%20look%20forward.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F01c23b%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/115/">World</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/178/">Great</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/199/">Live</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/01c23d/">Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01c23d"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01c23d" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/01c23d/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=Exploitation%20and%20oppression%20is%20not%20a%20matter%20of%20race.%20It%20is%20the%20system%2C%20the%20apparatus%20of%20world-wide%20brigandage%20called%20imperialism%2C%20which%20made%20the%20Powers%20behave%20the%20way%20they%20did.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F01c23d%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/115/">World</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/774/">Race</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/1303/">Imperialism</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/01c239/">The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a56/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/18/56.v6.jpg" alt="Han Suyin"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">Han Suyin</span> </a> </cite> <ul class="quotes-item__options"> <li> <button class="i-favorite popup-toggle" onclick="event.stopImmediatePropagation(); $('#popup_auth').modal('show');" title="Add to Favorites" qid="01c239"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__share" data-id="01c239" itemtype="quote"> <li> <button class="i-fb" data-url="https://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://citatis.com/a56/01c239/" title="Share to Facebook"></button> </li> <li> <button class="i-tw" data-url="https://twitter.com/share?text=The%20rice%20bowl%20is%20to%20me%20the%20most%20valid%20reason%20in%20the%20world%20for%20doing%20anything.%20A%20piece%20of%20one%27s%20soul%20to%20the%20multitudes%20in%20return%20for%20rice%20and%20wine%20does%20not%20seem%20to%20me%20a%20sacrilege.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitatis.com%2Fa56%2F01c239%2F" title="Share to Twitter"></button> </li> </ul> <ul class="quotes-item__tags"> <li><a href="/topic/115/">World</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/39/">Soul</a></li> <li><a href="/topic/885/">Reason</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li class="quotes-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation"> <blockquote itemprop="text"> <a href="/a56/31c227/">These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. 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