The crafty rabbit has three different entrances to it’s lair. If you are in a hurry you will never get there. Golden coloured on the outside, but rotten inside. Once bitten by a mosquito, you worry about mosquitoes all day. Tens of thousands of bones will become ashes when one general achieves his fame. It’s is impossible to change your basic characteristics.ģ monks fetching water resulted in no rice to eat. The arrogant army will lose the battle for sure. You cannot push a cow’s head down unless it is drinking water by it’s own will. The drunken gentleman’s desire is not about the wine. Things of the same characteristics congregate together. You want you horse to look good but you also want it not to have to eat grass.įollow the local custom when you go to a foreign place. If you don’t go into the cave of the tiger, how are you going to get its cub. Good must go through many trials and tribulations The course of true love never runs smooth.
If you have money you can make the ghosts and devils turn your grind stone. Man’s schemes are inferior to those made by heaven. Pick the flower when it is ready to be pickedĮach family has its own difficult scripture to recite. Good luck seldom comes in pairs but bad things never walk (occur) alone. The participant’s perspective are clouded while the bystanders’ views are clearĭifferent flowers look good to different peole The (soldier who retreated ) 50 paces jeered at the one who (retreated) 100 paces. The worst is yet to come.There is no never ending banquet under the sun. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust, but what she doesn't know is that this is only the beginning.
Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors.
A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.īut these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. What is death all about? What is life all about?
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