SaigyÅ quotes
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“Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.”
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“This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.”
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“Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.”
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“I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.”
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“Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.”
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“Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.”
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“Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.”
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“The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom”
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Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
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“Even God cannot change the past.”
Source : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b
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“To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.”
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“We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.”
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“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
Source : "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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