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“We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.”
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“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
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“The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.”
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“Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.”
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“Ministry is simply about loving the person in front of you.”
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“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
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“A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.”
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“Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.”
Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.19, John Wiley and Sons
