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| so:text | The idea that the worldling's 'reality' is illusion and that life itself is a dream from which we shall eventually awake is of course a Buddhist one; but in Xueqin's hands it becomes a poetical means of demonstrating that his characters are both creatures of his imagination and at the same time the real companions of his golden youth. To that extent it can be thought of as a literary device rather than as a deeply held philosophy, though it is really both. (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hawkes_(sinologist) |
| so:description | Preface to The Golden Days, 1973 (en) |
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