It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one’s own thoughts, – To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
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| Birth: | 19th August, 1889 |
| Death: | 27th June, 1966 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Orientalist, Writer |
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As one recent evaluation puts it, "Waley was the great transmitter of the high literary cultures of China and Japan to the English-reading general public; the ambassador from East to West in the first half of the 20th century. He was self-taught, but reached remarkable levels of fluency, even erudition, in both languages. It was a unique achievement, possible only in that time, and unlikely to be repeated."
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