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“Using others is a sin.
Why should I wish
to use another?”
― Kamo no Chōmei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World

“If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor before Genesis-the dream of every consciousness sick of itself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong: Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.”
― Kamo no Chōmei, Natsume Soseki's English Translation of Hojoki

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki