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Pu Songling Quotes

1640–1715 China

Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡; 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi).

China
Short story writers

Also known as: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

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How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! [...] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740)

With time
And my love of hoarding,
The matter sent me by friends
From the four corners
Has grown into a pile.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pu Songling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.