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She and Kana were as far apart as ice and fire, yet as close as sleep and death.
“There is often no line between perfection and evil.”
for the teacher was the model and mold of a man’s skills and learning, as the father was the model and mold of a man’s form and manners.
The best followers are those who think it was their own idea to follow you.
Mere coincidences. What is fate but coincidences in retrospect?
“There is far more happiness in a life that is your own,” his father had said to Jizu, “than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.”
the pleasure that parents take in their children is like the pleasure a man gets from releasing a wild bird.
