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Ding Ling
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“Rather than calling this diary a record of my life, it's more accurate to regard it as the sum of all my tears.”
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“Live and die your own way, unnoticed.”
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“The self is every person's true enemy.”
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“When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?”
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“Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.”
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“But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.”
Ding Ling, Chinese writer, cultural figure
(1906 - 1985)
Real name: Chiang Ping-tzu. Occasionally seen as Ting Ling.