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Ueda Akinari

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

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Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

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