"The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention."

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Source : Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”

Junichiro Tanizaki

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Source : Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl, Frances Hesselbein (2015). “Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons
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Source : Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.284, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Source: www.glamour.com

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