You can only understand the present age when it is past. Han Suyin More Quotes by Han Suyin More Quotes From Han Suyin A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings. Han Suyin burial doings family 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. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers. Han Suyin loss hands art Moralists have no place in an art gallery. Han Suyin art-galleries gallery art One should never condemn what one cannot understand. Han Suyin understanding should 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. Han Suyin wine soul doe 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. Han Suyin wall ignorance past Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging. Han Suyin flow history way 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. Han Suyin race way world And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness. Han Suyin stronger kindness world
