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Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.
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Always remember, child" her first teacher had impressed on her, "that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that need disipline -training- is about. So train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes, the touch of this silk, tender raindrops against the sh..
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It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.
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inner-self
japan
psychology
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How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless .
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Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
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by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
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Isn't it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn't it only through laughter we can stay human?
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And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.
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survival
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First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
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religion
priests
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There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer
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James Clavell |
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What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow."
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James Clavell |
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Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
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James Clavell |
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We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.
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James Clavell |
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Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?
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James Clavell |
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Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.
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He remembered the pride-filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces and they were on their knees slitting..
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James Clavell |
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How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
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James Clavell |
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Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
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The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law.
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There are no buts, my son. True there are degrees of honor -- but one man can have only one code. Do what you like. It's your choice. Some things a man must decide for himself. Sometimes you have to adapt to circumstances. But for the love of God guard yourself and your conscience -- no one else will -- and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
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If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable--if the sea wants you and your time has come.
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futility
orlov
1966
sailing
drowning
swimming
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You're a cruel, cold-gutted, heartless bastard but you've got majesty, no doubt about that.
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James Clavell |
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Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.
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Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons."
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humor
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Oare ce-s nourii Daca nu o justificare a cerului? Oare ce-i viata Daca nu o amanare a mortii?
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kasigi-yabu
shogun
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Oshche sega stani skala, v koiato v'lnite na zhivota shche se udriat naprazno...
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life
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Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.
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strength-of-mind
seppuku
samurai
rebirth
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Ochite im se sreshchnakha i edno obeshchanie be dadeno, prieto i v'rnato.
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James Clavell |
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Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.
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pain
thoughts
life-and-living
sadness
motivational
life-lessons
inspirational
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Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream
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dreams
life
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James Clavell |
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Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That's what makes them different from us - they need to share secrets, but we women only reveal them to gain an advantage.
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James Clavell |
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Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?
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James Clavell |
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A man's fate is a man's fate and life is but an illusion.
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James Clavell |
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Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.'
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James Clavell |
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This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.
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James Clavell |
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Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.
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1966
may-may
offerings
belief
gods
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James Clavell |
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by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
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James Clavell |
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So sorry
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James Clavell |
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Many times Blackthorne had looked over his shoulder expecting her there, but she was never there and never would be and this did not disturb him. She was with him forever, and he knew he would love her in the good times and in the tragic times, even in the winter of his life. She was always on the edge of his dreams.
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James Clavell |
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Love is a christian word. Love is a christian thought, a christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.
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James Clavell |
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Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life!
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James Clavell |
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I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!
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James Clavell |
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I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
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James Clavell |
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Sometimes it's wiser to give a quarry extra line -- that's how to catch a fish, neh?
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