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• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe…
• I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by…
• Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
• At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when…
• Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be…
• The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
• According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of…
• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I…
• Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
• Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
• There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
• I had no taste for defeat — much less victory — without a fight.

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