Empress Dowager Cixi famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.
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Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.
-- Empress Dowager Cixi -
Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?
-- Empress Dowager Cixi
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suffering is the essence of success!!!
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.
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The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
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I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.
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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
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