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Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

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…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

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An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

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if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

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When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

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Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

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