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  1. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to give up our individuality for the benefit of a collective intoxication, at the heart of which was a Little Red Book that had replaced all other forms of enlightenment. It contained all wisdom, the answers to all questions, expressions of all the social and political visions the world needed in order to progress from its present state and install once and for all paradise on earth, rather than a paradise in some remote kingdom in the sky. But what we didn't even begin to understand was that the sayings comprised living words. They were not inscribed in stone. They described reality. We read the sayings without interpreting them. As if the Little Red Book was a dead catechism, a revolutionary liturgy.
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  2. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    The whole of China was overshadowed by the injustice of the past.
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  3. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    Ya Ru's father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion.
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  4. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    The passage of time was relentless and capricious, and one would lose the battle with it in the end. The only resistance a man could offer was to make the most of time, exploit it without trying to prevent its progress.
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  5. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    The westerly wind whines sharp, wild gees cry in the sky, the frosty morning's moon. Frosty the morning's moon,Horses' hooves clatter hard,Stifled the sound of the trumpet. Mao Zedong, 1935
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  6. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.
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  7. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.
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  8. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.
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  9. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.
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  10. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    Wherever battles are waged there are casualties, and death is a common occurrence. But what is closest to our hearts is the best interest of the people and the suffering of the vast majority, and when we die for the people, it is an honorable death. Nevertheless we should do our best to avoid unnecessary casualties.Mao Zedong, 1944
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  11. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    China is a poor country. The economic development everybody talks about has only benefited a limited part of the population. If this way of leading China into the future continues, with a gap between the rich and the poor growing wider all the time, it will end up in catastrophe. China will be thrust back once more into hopeless chaos. Or fascist structures will become dominant. We are defending the hundreds of millions of peasants who, when all's said and done, are the ones whose labor is producing the wealth on which developments are based. Developments they are benefiting from less and less.
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  12. Henning Mankell _ The Man from Beijing

    If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.
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