Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

I heard that I am your biggest disappointment, yet, in my heart, I know and feel that I am the greatest version of myself ever and celebrate myself each and every day

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people we want to love.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.