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“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
― Mandarins: Stories
― Mandarins: Stories
“A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.”
― House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
― House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
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“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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