“You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.”
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“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
― Lectures on Philosophy
― Lectures on Philosophy
“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
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