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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of…
— Amy Lowell
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Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
— Francis Marion
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Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
— Matsuo Basho
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Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
— Aziz Ansari
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
— Philip Sidney
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I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and…
— Unknown Author
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It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me…
— Unknown Author
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All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated…
— W.C. Fields
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Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or…
— Dogen
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