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“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a past, without a future, behind these sounds which decompose from day to day, peel off and slip towards death, the melody stays the same, young and firm, like a pitiless witness.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
― Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea