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Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

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She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

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It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

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The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

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But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

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Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

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I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

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How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

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What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

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While I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Gillian Rubinstein

Gillian Rubinstein

Gillian Rubinstein

Born: August 29, 1942 (age 83)

Bio: Gillian Rubinstein is an English-born children's author and playwright. Born in Potten End, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Rubinstein split her childhood between England and Nigeria, moving to Australia in 1973.

Known for:

Across the Nightingale Floor (2002)
Emperor of the Eight Islands (2016)
Grass for His Pillow (2003)
Brilliance of the Moon (2004)
Heaven's Net is Wide (2007)

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