Nguyễn Du quotes

Now we stand face to face-but who can tell
we shan't wake up and learn it was a dream? (Nguyễn Du)

How sorrowful is women's lot!" she cried. "We all partake of woe, our common fate.

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Beautiful girl and talented young man- what stirred their hearts their eyes still dared not say. They hovered, rapture-bound, 'tween wake and dream.

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A hundred years-in this life span on earth talent and destiny are apt to feud. You must go through a play of ebb and flow and watch such things as make you sick at heart. Is it so strange that losses balance gains? Blue Heaven's wont to strike a rose from spite.

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Heaven grants us this hour: now from our gate all mists have cleared; on high, clouds roll away.

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Just as the lotus wilts, the mums bloom forth- time softens grief, and winter turns to spring.

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West Lake flower garden: a desert, now. Alone, at the window, I read through old pages. A smudge of rouge, a scent of perfume, but I still weep. Is there a Fate for books? Why mourn for a half-burned poem? There is nothing, there is no one to question, and yet this misery feels like my own. Ah, in another three hundred years will anyone weep, remembering my fate?

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Inside ourselves there lies the root of good: the heart outweighs all talents on this earth.

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She peered far into space: where was her home?

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By lamplight turn these scented leaves and read a tale of love recorded in old books.

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As you must weigh and choose between your love
and filial duty, which will turn the scale?
She put aside all vows of love and troth-
a child first pays the debts of birth and care. (Nguyễn Du)

Henceforth I'm bound to you for life," he said. "Call these small gifts a token of my love.

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Nguyễn Du

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Occupation: Poet
Born: January 3, 1765
Died: September 16, 1820
Quotes count: 12

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