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The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction, rather than as a p...more

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The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and h...more

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This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpe...more

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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

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Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

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To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not be loved, but at the final stage I had substitute...more

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To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, brigh...more

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Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedar...more