Original text (Chinese)
Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real.
One day, when spring has gone and youth has fled,
The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.
Fall'n the great house once so secure in wealth,
Each scattered member shifting for himself.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
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