"Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow."

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Source : Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.7, Courier Corporation

Murasaki Shikibu

#Night Quotes #Voice Quotes #Tears Quotes

“The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”

Source : Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company
“The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There are much more intimate relations between the earth and the living organisms which populated it, and it may even be demonstrated that the earth was developed because of them.”
“If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.”
“If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.”

Source : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.4
“There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having this career. I guess that's bizarre. What they don't understand is that this is all stuff that's really new.”
“To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.”
“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”

Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”
“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”

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