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#1

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
― Bashō

tags: composition, creating, haiku, japanese, poetry, zen, zen-monks

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#2

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain

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#3

“The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#4

“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. ”
― Robert Orben

tags: pessimism

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#5

“POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: darkness, funny, future, humor, pessimism

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#6

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
― E. M. Forster

tags: gustave-flaubert, misattributed, paul-valery, writing

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#7

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost

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#8

“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: writing

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#9

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

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#10

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

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#11

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

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#12

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reality

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#13

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#14

“Now while it is true that every witch uses magic, not every magician is a witch. As long as the definition and limits of witchcraft remain unfathomed, analysis remains superficial, and is generally made tributary to discussion of such ill-posed and insoluble questions as "the difference between magic and religion.”
― Jacob Rabinowitz

tags: magic, religion, witchcraft

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#15

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...”
― Alice Walker

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#16

“if you did not feel the need to kill animals to gain knowledge, then you would not have wars, either. You would understand the balances of nature far better.”
― Jane Roberts, The “Unknown” Reality, Volume One (A Seth Book)

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