"Tea is, in fact, a marvelous drink. To those who spurn it on the grounds of insomnia, I say that it’s better to be deprived of sleep than of tea.”
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“Under the sun the couple presented smiles to the world. Under the moon, they were lost in thought: and so they had quietly passed the years.”
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“The very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.”
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“Watch birth and death:
The lotus has already
Opened its flower.”
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“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”
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"From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vaccuum, makind abhors inequality."
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"The artist, even when imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod."
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"Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them...A life without conclusions is painful."
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"Into the field of
Yellow flowers
The red setting sun!"
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