"This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers."

-- Mark Lilla

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“Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.”
“A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.”
“Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers
“An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.”
“Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?”
“I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.”

Source : "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2006.
“The world is an enormous injustice.”
“My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.”

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