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“Words are like a telescope. They help you see the things you want to see, but they leave you blind to everything else”

Book:The Cat Who Saved Books

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“I have to admit I envy people who never doubt themselves and spend their whole lives among others who are equally meek and gentle and warm. As far as hardship goes, if you can get through your life without experiencing it, so much the better; there's no need to go out of your way to seek hardship”

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Book:No One Knows

Source: No One Knows

“People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as I were suffering in Hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.”

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Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in Hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.”

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Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“At twenty, he had been passionately certain: there's just one thing I'm destined for and that's glory; that's right, glory! He had no idea what kind of glory he wanted, or what kind he was suited for. He knew only that in the depths of the world's darkness was a point of light which had been provided for him alone and would draw near some day to irradiate him and no other.”

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Book:The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Source: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“民の奉仕者は聖なる侍。”

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Book:Shimin Samurai

Source: Shimin Samurai

“私の世界、私の責任。民の奉仕者は聖なる侍。”

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Book:Shimin Samurai

Source: Shimin Samurai

“Having traveled from the shores of Morocco to the hills of Ireland, I've learned that 'home' isn't just a place you're from, but a place you create. I write stories for the young person I was—the one who felt a little lost—to show them that your own strength is the most powerful magic you will ever find.”

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Book:Wilma Wonders: The Heir of Oakhaven

Source: Wilma Wonders: The Heir of Oakhaven

“Our pleasure is ours, your pleasure is yours, we discover our own pleasure, and we don’t betray our own pleasure, we don’t betray our own bodies”

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Book:Life Ceremony

Source: Life Ceremony

“He did not why she pulled out the hair of the dead. Accordingly, he did not know whether her case was to be put down as good or bad. But in his eyes, pulling out the hair of the dead in the Rashomon on this stormy night was an unpardonable crime. Of course it never entered his mind that a little while ago he had though of becoming a thief”

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Book:Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

Source: Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

“He did not know why she pulled out the hair of the dead. Accordingly, he did not know whether her case was to be put down as good or bad. But in his eyes, pulling out the hair of the dead in the Rashomon on this stormy night was an unpardonable crime. Of course it never entered his mind that a little while ago he had though of becoming a thief”

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Book:Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

Source: Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

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