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“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“It was a genuine revelation, you see," said Aimée to the baron. "They can be killed. The real assholes can be killed.”
― Jean-Patrick Manchette, Fatale