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• Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the…
• On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease,…
• Ambition never comes to an end.
• Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations…
• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to…
• A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he…
• If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
• You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl…
• Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
• The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from…
• The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends…

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