"How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her."

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Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

Lafcadio Hearn

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“The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.”
“If they arenâ€™t hating on you, then youâ€™re not doing anything right. If women arenâ€™t jealous of you, talking about you and cutting you down, then youâ€™re a nerd, and I would never want to be that.”
“I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about escorting was how boring it mostly is. it seemed like an assembly line process of cleaning my apartment, dressing up, making awkward small talk, having mundane mechanical sex, making more awkward small talk, and then closing the door after them. There's also a lot of frustration and annoyance with it that I feel isn't discussed (a lot of flaky potential clients for instance.)”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.”

Source : Horatio Greenough, Harold A. Small (1947). “Form and Function: Remarks on Art, Design, and Architecture”, p.75, Univ of California Press
“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.”
“Iâ€™d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.”
“The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.”
“Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye”

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