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Captivating. a few social sentiments about the "right time" to say something, courage, purity and atonement i feel are outdated if not senseless, but as Sensei says himself, they are from a different time and generation (and Japan), so of course we f
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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
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“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
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