"The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan……" — Pico Iyer
"The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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