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Yoshida Kenko
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One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.
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The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
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Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.
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You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.
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What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.
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There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
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Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
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On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.
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If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.
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In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth
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It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.
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Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.
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The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
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If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
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The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.
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