"A thing which fades With no outward sign- Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!"

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Source : "Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-nineteenth Century" edited by Donald Keene, translated by Arthur Waley, Allen & Unwin, (p. 78), 1955.

Ono no Komachi

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“Obamacare will question your sex life,”

Source : "Obamacare will question your sex life". nypost.com. September 15, 2013.
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“Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?”
“Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered.”

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