“How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! […] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!”

—  Pu Songling

"The Painted Skin" from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740), as translated by John Minford in Strange tales from a Chinese studio (2006), p. 521

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