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"Not sure if I’m going to finish this one as I am skipping pages for the 3rd time. Non-spoilery reasons: (1) unnecessary hetero sex scene, (2) violence against cats, (3) anti-feminist rhetoric.
Have I once again fallen into the trap of famous male author who hates women and loves violence?" — May 31, 2026 09:37PM
"Not sure if I’m going to finish this one as I am skipping pages for the 3rd time. Non-spoilery reasons: (1) unnecessary hetero sex scene, (2) violence against cats, (3) anti-feminist rhetoric.
Have I once again fallen into the trap of famous male author who hates women and loves violence?" — May 31, 2026 09:37PM
“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.
Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
― Shōgun
Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
― Shōgun
“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― Measure for Measure
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― Measure for Measure
“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”
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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”
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