Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome. — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
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… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds. — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
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… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“And that's what Mahudin calls our thought control...an induced hypnosis of inferiority, destroying confidence and initiative, prolonging the period of tutelage which we would… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal. — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
