Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

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A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

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People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

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From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

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Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

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A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.

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