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“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. ”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“Do nothing that is of no use”
― Book of Five Rings
― Book of Five Rings
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
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