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“What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.”
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“Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.”
Source : Anita Brookner (1986). “The Misalliance”, Pantheon
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“For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.”
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“That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.”
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“Sometimes you just have to play in pain.”
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“I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.”
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“Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound”
Source : Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.”
Source : Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press
