"Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon."

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Matsuo Basho

#Two Quotes #Half Quotes

“It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.”
“As I have told you before, in a manner of speaking you are given the gifts of gods. Your beliefs become reality. What you believe is, and becomes real in your experience. There is no area in your life to which this does not apply.”
“Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.”
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
“To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.”
“I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside...what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.”

Source : BBC's "Panorama", March 22, 1976.
“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”
“How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!”

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