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I want to make a poem of my life.
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Living is merely the chaos of existence.
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Chaos
Existence
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Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.
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Bitter
Glory
Stuff
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His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.
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Emotion
Eye
Glitter
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A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
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Men
Giants
Tiny
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We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
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Age
Heroic
Heroic Death
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Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
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Forever
Human Life
Life Is
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Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
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I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.
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Fighting
Taste
Victory
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As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.
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Flower
Long
Spring
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Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
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Results
Standpoint
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The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.
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Space
Childhood
Stage
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Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.
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Heart
Imagine
Lying
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It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.
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Matter
Needs
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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
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Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
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Letting Go
Secret
Youth
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
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Quality
Details
Special
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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
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Certain
Periods
Silence
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...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
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Decay
Kind
World
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if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist
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Changed
Ifs
World
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There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
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Existence
Uncertainty
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For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.
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Eternity
Hands
Impossible
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I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.
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Lines
One Line
Writing
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The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.
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Fans
People
World
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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Men
Curiosity
Desire
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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
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Facts
Remorse
Sin
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Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
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Imagination
Cancer
Caught
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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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Dying
Goes On
Kind
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Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.
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Men
Needs
Proud
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Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
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Blood
Lines
Perfect
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Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
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Danger
May
Moments
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The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
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Hero
Inferiority
Worship
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Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.
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Order
People
World
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It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
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Childhood
Hero
Thinking
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The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
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Blades
Flesh
Sun
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Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
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Air
Cotton
Summer
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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Kissing
Shelter
Spirit
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If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
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Dignity
Ifs
May
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Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.
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Doubt
Lying
Pain
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For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
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Artist
Creativity
Ill Health
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According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
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Ocean
Essentials
Joy
Land
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It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
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Art
Photograph
Records
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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Abnormal
Daily Life
World Destruction
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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Journey
Busy
Possession
Complete
No Time
Nook
Preparations
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a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.
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Men
Cogs
Skills
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There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.
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Forget
Tears
World
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A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.
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Believe
Father
Lying
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We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
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Betrayal
Betrayed
Trying
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I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.
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Blood
Comfort
Vision
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I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.
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Animal
Baby
Wings
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