Camille Dent

“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

“Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd