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“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“We are all creatures of the stars.”
― Doris Lessing, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta