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“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
― Gary Snyder

“When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.”
― D.T. Suzuki, The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk