

“Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.”
― Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
― Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“For every quote, there is one that challenges it.”
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“They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.”
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“He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.”
― Five Stories by Kunikida Doppo
― Five Stories by Kunikida Doppo

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