"In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes."

-- Izumi Shikibu

#Bells Quotes #Never Forget Quotes #Longing Quotes

“There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor”
“A lie never lives to be old.”
“One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.”
“So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.”
“Iâ€™m afraid to close my eyes, Iâ€™m afraid to open them”
“People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.”
“I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.”
“The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.”

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