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“The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her . . . I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her . . .”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Look! A mountain there
I don’t climb a mountain
Mountain climbs me
Mountain is myself
I climb on myself.”
― Nanao Sakaki, Break the Mirror

“A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas.”
― Bodhidharma, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The vultures will make sculptures out of our flesh.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal