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764 – 「 假作真时真亦假,无为有处有还无。」

“Jiǎ zuò zhēn shí zhēn yì jiǎ, wú wéi yǒu chù yǒu huan wú.”

“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true; real becomes not-real when the unreal’s real.”

–Cáo Xuěqín 「」

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Posted in Xuěqín, Cáo and tagged Chinese, Dream of the Red Chamber, False, Fiction, Fictionality, Literature, Perspective, Real, Reality, Sourced, Translation, True, Truth, Unreal on February 25, 2019 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

244 – “Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

–George Bernard Shaw [Attributed]
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Posted in Shaw, George Bernard and tagged Attributed, Danger, Dangerous, False, Ignorance, Ignorant, Knowledge on August 13, 2017 by Chalax91. 2 Comments

188 – “The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.”

–Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Posted in Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi and tagged False, Incomplete, Nigeria, Nigerian, Prejudice, Sourced, Stereotype, Stereotypes, TED, Truth, Writer on June 20, 2017 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

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