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“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Sadness never pleases. Our duty is to please and to be gay.”
― Shōgun: Part Two
― Shōgun: Part Two
“Turn, you whore from hell,” he gasped, his strength ebbing fast. “Help me!”
― Shōgun, Part 1
― Shōgun, Part 1
“Why not laughter when an enemy’s outsmarted? Why not laughter to empty the tragedy from you when karma interrupts the beautiful death of a true samurai, when karma causes the useless death of a pretty girl? Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth?”
― Shōgun, Part 1
― Shōgun, Part 1
“Isn’t man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?”
― Shōgun, Part 1
― Shōgun, Part 1
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