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  1. All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve th…
  2. At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations fo…
  3. How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory…
  4. Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
  5. We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in mercile…
  6. My 'act' has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It's no longer an act. My knowledge that I am masquerading as …
  7. Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in ever…
  8. I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealou…

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