Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.

Kenzaburo Oe's Popular Quotes

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

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Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

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I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I kn…

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After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

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To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

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It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

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There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of th…

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The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

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