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“Everything in the world is good. But if you're not careful, even good things can turn against you”
― Eiji Yoshikawa

“If the talents I was born with are the right ones, I may someday achieve my goal. If not, I may go through life being as stupid as I am now.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

“If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

“Musashi wondered how many people there were who on this night could say: “I was right. I did what I should have done. I have no regrets.” For him, each resounding knell evoked a tremor of remorse. He could conjure up nothing but the things he had done wrong during the last year. Nor was it only the last year—the year before, and the year before that, all the years that had gone by had brought regrets. There had not been a single year devoid of them. Indeed, there had hardly been one day.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

“The young man rushed toward them. “Stand and fight!” he was shouting. “Is running away the Yoshioka version of the Art of War? I personally don’t want to kill you, but my Drying Pole’s still thirsty. The least you can do, cowards that you are, is leave your heads behind.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how they dealt with common human weaknesses.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“I’m still an amateur. But the world’s full of people who don’t seem to be as good as I am.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“Love was like a toothache.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“If the young cannot harbor great dreams in their souls, who can?”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“If you trust me enough to tell me a secret, I certainly promise to keep it. Please speak freely, on any subject.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko

“A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko

“Take a good look at the times. It is inevitable that greedy men, who close their eyes and obstruct the tide of the times with their selfishness, will be burned up together with the fallen leaves.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko

“A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus