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“Most of my life has been spent not understanding, and I can assure you, it was not easy.”
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“To know nothing is to know the peace of Buddha.
- The Story of Seijuro in Himeji”
― Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan
- The Story of Seijuro in Himeji”
― Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan
“There is no purpose to life, you are here to achieve nothing. Whatever you feel is your supreme goal in life is a fiction created by you and the society you are living in, just to keep yourself busy in this purposeless creation.
You are born to die, everything else is pure nonsense.”
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You are born to die, everything else is pure nonsense.”
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“The happiness achieved in isolation from the world and enjoyed within the confines of one’s own private existence can never be anything but the famous “absence of pain,” a definition on which all variations of consistent sensualism must agree.”
― The Human Condition
― The Human Condition
“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
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