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    9 months ago

    Living people
    are soft and tender.
    Corpses are hard and stiff.
    The ten thousand things,
    the living grass, the trees,
    are soft, pliant.
    Dead, they’re dry and brittle.
    So hardness and stiffness
    go with death;
    tenderness, softness,
    go with life.
    And the hard sword fails,
    the stiff tree’s felled.
    The hard and great go under.
    The soft and weak stay up.

    Lao Zi (LeGuin trans.)