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The Western Wing is not a work written by an individual named Wang Shifu alone; if I read it carefully, it will also be a work of my own creation, because all the words in The Western Wing happen to be the words that I want to say and that I want to write down.

— Jin Shengtan

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To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?

Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut.

Before reading Romance, one should read the Book of Poetry.

To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?

To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?

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