“For ten long years the living of the dead knows nought.
Though to my mind not brought,
Could the dead be forgot?”

— Su Shi

"Dreaming of My Deceased Wife on the Night of the Twentieth Day of the First Month" (《江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦》), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 202

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十年生死两茫茫。不思量，自难忘。

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Chinese writer 1037–1101

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